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Harvey’s Ranch, near Las Vegas, N. M., 9600%, July 25, 1899 (Flora 
Beschle) and August 22, 1899 (Cockere//). This is a distinct looking plant, 
but it represents only a peculiar local tendency, not a separate specific type. 
SIDALCEA NEOMEXICANA Gray.— Good material of this, from Las 
Vegas, N. M., and elsewhere, has the mature carpels strongly reticulated. 
I thought I had a new species, but it is evidently only xeomexicana. In 
the herbarium of the N. M. Agricultural College, Professor E. O. 
Wooton has specimens showing smooth and reticulated carpels, col- 
lected at the same time and place. : 
CLEMATIS OCCIDENTALIS?” albiflora, n. var. —Sepals white. 
Common at Beulah, New Mexico (W. Porter ; Cockerell), where the 
typical form, with purplish-blue sepals, is rare. 
CaLocHortus GUNNISON! perpulcher, n. var.— Petals larger, 40- 
42"™" long and 45"™™ broad, pale primrose yellow, a large purple basal 
spot, irregular purplish bands as in type, transverse gland yellow, about 
diameter, the breadth of the petal at this level being 18"; style 
blue; stigma pale sea-green, with dark mottling ; anthers pale yellow; 
petals almost white beneath, greenish and finely streaked with dark 
blue on’ basal portion ; sepals colored like basal half of petals. 
Harvey’s Ranch, near Las Vegas, N. M., July 25, 1899 (//ora Beschle) ; 
Beulah, N. M. (Wilmatte Porter). This stands out well from the typical 
C. Gunnisoni of Colorado, which grew all round my former place of residence 
in that state— T. D. A. CoCcKERELL, Mesilla Park, New Mexico. 
* Atragene occidentalis Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 520. 1813. 
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