New Plants from Colorado 
By GeorGE E. OsTERHOUT 
Cryptanthe gracilis 
Annual: stem branched, erect, slender, 1-1.5 dm. high, 
sparsely hispid; leafy to the inflorescence, but the leaves rather 
few and remote, narrowly oblanceolate and rounded at the apex, 
about 1 cm. long, sessile, hispid on both surfaces but not densely 
so: inflorescence pedunculate, scorpioid, from the ends of the 
branches: flowers small: corolla white: fruiting calices becom- 
ing rather remote; lobes slender, having no noticeable midrib, 
densely hispid with whitish hairs, attaining a length of 3 mm.: 
nutlet solitary, narrowly ovate, acuminate, smooth, triangular in 
cross section, but not sharply angled, 2 mm. long, a little longer 
than the large gynobase to which it is attached for about half its 
length. 
Collected only at Glenwood Springs, Garfield Co., Colo., June 
6, 1902, no. 2589. 
Aulospermum planosum 
Perennial from a long fleshy root: stem naked with scarious 
sheaths at base, 5-7 cm. high, crowned by the leaves and pedun- 
cles which stand at right angles to the stem, making the top some- 
what flat: leaves glaucus, ovate in outline, 7-8 cm. long, on 
rather long peduncles, bipinnatifid, the divisions 
mostly entire, but some of them lobed: peduncles 
longer than the leaves: involucre none: bracts of 
the involucels few and linear : umbel of 6 or more 
rays, 2-3 cm. long: pedicels about 2 mm. long: 
flowers purple: fruit oblong, 6 mm. long, broadly winged, oil 
tubes 5-6 in the intervals, 10-12 on the commissure. 
Collected along the Eagle River at Minturn, Eagle Co., Colo., 
June 5, 1902, no, 2572. 
Touterea multicaulis 
Perennial, many-stemmed and much branched: stems whitish, 
smooth and shining, but slightly hispid at summit, 2~3 dm. high : 
lower leaves including the short petiole about 0.5 cm. long, pin- 
natifid, the divisions remote and entire; upper leaves narrowly 
linear, entire and sessile : flowers numerous from the ends of the 
branches, opening at sundown or a little before, and closing again 
in about half an hour: peduncles short: calyx-lobes deltoid, acu- 
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