L08 ATTRIBUTIONS PROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Krameria glandulooa Rose & Painter. 



Low compact shrubs, the branches often forming long weak spines; the l»ark on 

 old branches dark or sometimes bleaching out; young branches clothed with long 

 hairs; Leaves linear, with cinereous pubescence, tipped by a long 

 deciduous mucro; peduncles and calyx and often the branches and leaves covered 

 with black glandular hair-: sepals and petals purplish; fruit flattened, ovate In out- 

 line, covered with long purple barbed hairs. 



Type CJ.8. National Herbarium no. 346914, collected by J. X. Rose near Kl Paso, 

 Texas, May s . 1899 (no. 4904). This Bpecies te distributed from western Texas to 

 California, extending north into Utah and south Into northern Mexico. It has 

 long been known a- B olio Benth., but that Bpecies is confined to southern 



Lower California, has much greener foliage, Less mucronate leaves, red branches, 

 reddish yellow flowers, etc. 



Krameria grayi Rose & Painter. 



A. Gray, PI. Wright 1: 12. L852, not Willd., L825. 



Krameria lanceolata Torr. Ann. Lye. X. Y. 2: 168. 1828. 



Krameria palmeri Rose, Contr. Xat. Herb. 1:304. pi. £7. 1895. 



Krameria parvifolia Bentham, Bot Voy. Sulph. 6. pi. I. 1844. 



Krameria paucifolia Rose. 



Krameria cahescens paucifolia Rose, Contr. Xat. Herb. 1:661. 18 



Krameria pauciflora DC. Prod. 1:341. 1824. 



Krameria ramosissima A. Gray) B. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17:326. 1882. 

 Krameria parvifolia ramosissima A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1:41. 1852. 



Krameria revolnta < >. Berg, Bot. Zeit 14:751. 1856. 



Krameria secundiflora DC. Prod. 1:341. 1824. 



Krameria interior le>se & Painter, sp. nov. 



shrnh. much branched, with black shreddy hark: young branches with cinereous, 

 appressed pubescence; leaves linear, 12 to 20 nun. long, mucronate-tipped; flowers 

 en; fruiting peduncles L5 nun. or less long, bibracteate; fruit globular, the 

 body 8 nun. Ioiilt; spines with retrorse hairs along the upper half. 



Type U. 8. National Herbarium no. 301352, collected by J. X*. Host' near San Juan 

 Capistrano, Zacatecas, August 19, 1897 (no. 2441). 



GERANIACEAE. 

 THREE NEW SPECIES OF GERANIUM. 



Geranium bellum Rose. sj>. nov. 



Resembling 0. schii deanwn, hut the flowers always white, the Bepals much broader, 

 the outer one- 4 or 5-nerved, and the leaf segments much more obtuse. 



Very common in the high mountains of Central Mexico, frequently collected by 

 the writer and recently by Dr. ('. <;. Pringle. 



Type U. s. National Herbarium no. . llected by J. N. Rose and Robert 



Hay on sierra de Pachuca, Hidalgo, July 21 and 22, 1**01 (no. 5( 



Geranium lozani Rose, Bp. nov. 



Perennial; Btems Beveral, arising from the base or near it. 20 to .".<» cm. high, either 

 nearly glabrousor with a rather scanty pubescence consisting of rather short retlexed 

 hairs: basal leaves long-petioled; blades orbicular in outline, 3to5-lobed, the lobes 

 usually 3-cleft and Btrongly toothed, coriaceous in texture, scarcely it' at all paler 

 beneath, a little pubescent on both surfaces; peduncle extending beyond the ]• 

 2-tlowered; pedicel- elongated, 5 to 7 em. long; sepals broadly lanceolate. 3-nerved, 



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