July 7, [909 S7 



Wooton and Standly; west side, near S;m Augustine ranch, 

 August r.6, [895, Wanton. The plant is related to C. Integra^ 

 but differs in its very distinct pubescence and smaller flowers 



and bracts. It is not very distant from C. patriotica and C. re- 

 trorsa. but is distinguished by its different calyx and corolla. 

 Herbarium of th'- New Mexico Agricultural College. 



A NEW LATHYRUS FROM NEW MEXICO 



By K. ( ). Wooton and Fait. C. Standi. ky 



Lathyms oreophilus pp. nov. 



Perennial, climbing or ascending by rather short bnt well 

 developed 3-parted or simple tendrils: stems rather slender, less 

 than 5 dm. high, sharply angled, finely pnbernlent throughout, 

 usually simple: leaves with 3 to 5, usually 4, pairs of leaflets, 

 the rachises sparingly pnbernlent; leaflets elliptic, about 40 mm. 

 long and 15 mm. wide, with very short petiolules, rather thick, 

 obtuse at both ends, mucronate at the apex, strongly veined, 

 rather bright green above and paler beneath, more or less pn- 

 bernlent beneath, glabrate above; stipules semi-sagittate, very 

 small and inconspicuous: racemes about as long as the leaves, 

 6 to 15-flowered: flowers about 15 mm. long, on pedicels about 

 3 mm. loner, the wings and keel bright rose color, the standard 

 darker and drying purple: calyx 8 mm. long or less, including 

 the teeth, densely pubescent, the lowest tooth linear-lanceolate 

 and two-thirds as long as the calyx, the lateral teeth much 

 shorter and triangular-lanceolate: fruit not seen. 



This is very unlike any other species of this genus found 

 in New Mexico, its chief peculiarities being its pubescence and 

 the small size of its handsome flowers. The type was collected 

 in James canyon, about four miles east of Cloudcroft, in the 

 Sacramento mountains of New Mexico, June 26, 1899, by /:'. O. 

 Wooton. The plant was very abundant in this one locality, 

 growing along fence rows about a piece of land that had been 

 cleared recently. 



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