1899] NEW SPECIES OF WESTERN PLANTS 451 
Pahrump and on Sheep mountain, Nevada, on rocks, Dr. C. 
A. Purpus, nos. 6051 and 6134. 
Laphamia fastigiata, n. sp.—Scabrous puberulent, cespitose 
from a woody root: stems 10-14™ high, the short branches mono- 
cephalous: lower leaves opposite, spatulate, attenuate into a 
margined petiole, entire to trifid, 2-3 long ; stem leaves smaller, 
with short petioles, 3-4™™ wide, cuneate at base and trifid above, 
the central lobe much the longest: involucre of about fifteen 
linear acute slightly hispid-pubescent bracts that are carinate 
thickened at the base: rays none: disk flowers about forty, light 
yellow, 5™™ long, equaling the involucre ; tube pubescent: pappus 
asingle delicate awn, half the length of the corolla or less, some- 
times wanting : akenes slightly ciliate on the margins. 
Sheep mountain, Nevada, Dr. C. A. Purpus, no. 6142. 
Gilia sedifolia, n. sp— Glandular-pubescent except the lower 
leaves: stem simple, thick and fleshy from a stout biennial root: 
leaves crowded near the base, fleshy, linear-spatulate, obtuse, 
sessile, entire, 1°" long, the upper ones becoming smaller and 
bract-like : peduncles 12™" long or less, rarely two-flowered, 
Solitary from the axils of the lower leaves or crowded in those 
of the bracts from the middle of the stem upwards: calyx 4™ 
long, its triangular-acuminate lobes equaling the violet corolla: 
tube of the corolla as long as its ovate not spreading lobes: 
stamens inserted in the sinuses, shorter than the corolla lobes: 
mye 3" long: capsule as long as the calyx, about fifteen- 
Seeded : seeds not developing spiricles when wetted, decidedly 
Wing-margined. 
Uncompahgre range, Colorado, at 12,000 ft. altitude, 
— Purpus, no. 697. 
__ An abundance of old leaves persists about th 
"the appearance of a perennial, although it can only be a 
ate borne Sparingly in the axils of the lower leaves, 
throughout the upper half, completely hiding the small bracts. 
fleshy leaves recall those of some sedums. 
Dy, CA. 
e base of the stem, giving 
biennial. Flowers 
but are crowded 
The thick 
Phacelia Purpusi, n. sp.— Annual, 2.3%" high, somewhat 
