154 LBAFLETS. 



Trifolium neukoph"xllum. Perennial, the scattered stems 

 from horizontal rootstocks, 5 to 10 inches high, erect or decum- 

 bent, canescently villous, usually with a solitary peduncled 

 inflorescence: leaflets of lowest leaves obovate to oblong, i to 

 i inch long, these passing to such as are IJ inches and linear 

 and spinescently acute, all very prominently transverse-venulose 

 and doubjy spinulose-denticulate, both faces more or less loosely 

 villous especially along the mid vein : head at first flowering 

 broader than high, at length 1 inch long and the flowers deflexed : 

 calyx with 5 equal slenderly subulate teeth of twice the length 

 of the turbinate tube, the whole villous with long appressed 

 hairs : corolla twice the length of the calyx, deep red-purple. 



MogoUon Mountains, New Mexico, 17 Aug., 1903, at 8,500 

 feet, n. 533. Of the group of T. longipes. 



Malvastrum digitatum. Evidently rather tall, the flower- 

 ing branches a foot long, these and all green parts of the plant 

 somewhat canescent with stellate hairs : leaves small, digitately 

 or somewhat pedately divided into about 5 linear-oblong seg- 

 ments, these mostly entire, abruptly acutish : ends of branches 

 loosely racemose, the flowers on very short pedicels : corolla 

 scarlet, \ inch wide or more : teeth of broad depressed fruiting 

 calyx subulate-triangular ; carpels densely stellate-tomentose. 



Kingston, New Mexico, June, 1904, 0. B. Metcalfe, n. 941. 



At-tsites and Tliyrsanthema 



In examining and riaming a collection of choice plants from 

 New Mexico that came to my work table more than a year since, 

 I found a new member of the genus Chaptalia, as I would have 

 called it, and as after mature consideration I did afterwards 

 call it. 



I knew that, as if upon the authority of the Kew Index and 

 of Otto Kuntze, one or more American botanists had formally 

 deposed Chaptalia and had put the name Thyrsanihema in its 

 place, Real authority upon any such niatter do^s not exist j but 



