12 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



FRANKENIA JAMESU, Torr. Gr. in Proc. Am. Acad. v. 8, p. 622. Much 

 branched from a woody base, 6'-10'; branchlets minutely pubescent; 

 leaves opposite, linear, strongly revolute on the margins, somewhat 

 mucrouate, &'-&" long, -with fascicles of shorter ones in their axils ; 

 flowers terminal, sessile ; petals long-clawed, white, limb oblong-cuneate, 

 erose-denticulate at the tip, 2"-3" long, nearly twice the length of 

 the calyx-tube; stamens 6, exserted; stigmas terminal; ovules 3, 

 oblong-linear, pendulous from the apex of a very long subbasilar funicu- 

 lus. Canon City, Brandegee. Near Pueblo, Redfield. 



CARYOPHYI^LACE^E. 



SAPONARIA VACCARIA, L. ( Vaccaria vulgaris, Host.) Hoopes; Greene. 

 Introduced. 



SILENE ACAULIS, L. Gray's Manual, p. 90. High alpine, growing in 

 dense mats near the snow-line, at 10,000 to 14,000 feet altitude. July, 

 August. Hall & Harbour, 65. Gray's Peak, Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith. 

 Pike's Peak, Porter. Mount Lincoln, at 14,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 

 Gray's Peak, 12,000 to 13,000 feet, Redfield. 



SILENE SCOULERI, Hook. Stem erect; racemes sub-compound, nar- 

 row, few-flowered ; flowers erect or nodding, longer or shorter than the 

 pedicels; calyx oblong, clavate, somewhat dilating, teeth broad-lance- 

 olate, acutisli, slightly ciliate ; petals white or pinkish, bifid, the lobes 

 oblong, emargiuate, the appendages obtuse ; claws with acute auricles, 

 woolly-ciliate as well as the filaments; capsule obovate-oblong, three to 

 four times longer than the stipe. Hall & Harbour, 61 ; Hoopes. In the 

 mountains. 



SILENE MENZIESII, Hook. Minutely glandular-pubescent; stems 

 numerous, dichotomously branched, 6'-12' high, weak, ascending, leafy 

 to the summit; leaves crowded, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 

 acuminate at both ends ; peduncles axillary and terminal, 1-flowered ; 

 petals white, bifid, 3" long, exceeding the obovate, deeply 5-toothed 

 calyx; styles thickened above, conspicuously bearded within. Hall & 

 Harbour, 64. 



LYCHNIS APETALA, L. Pubescent; stems simple, 3 / -4 / high, 

 1-flowered; calyx ovoid, 10-striate, including the petals; filaments and 

 claws of the petals naked ; seeds large and margined. Hall & Harbour, 

 63. Mount Lincoln at 13,000 feet altitude, July, Coulter. 



LYCHNIS DRUMMONDII, Watson. (Silene Drummondli, Hook. ?) 

 King's Rep., vol. 5, p. 37. Glandular-pubescent and viscid ; stems 

 several, l-3 high, erect, simple ; leaves remote, linear-lanceolate ; 

 raceme loose, few-flowered, with elongated pedicels, alternate or oppo- 



l . FRANKENIACE^E. A. St. Hil. Sepals 5, united in a furrowed tube, persistent, 

 equal; petals alternate with the sepals; stamens hypogynous, either equal in number 

 to the petals and alternate -with them, or having a tendency to double the number ; 

 anthers roundish, versatile ; ovary 1-celled, with 2-3 parietal placentae : stylos 2-3, 

 filiform, united for a considerable part of their length ; capsule 1-celled, inclosed in 

 the calyx, 2-3, or 4-valved, many seeded ; seeds attached to the margins of the valves, 

 very minute, anatropous ; embryo straight; erect in the midst of albumen. Herba- 

 ceous,plants or undershrubs. Stems very much branched. Leaves opposite, exstipu- 

 late, with a membrauaceous sheathing base, often revolute at the edges. Flowers 

 sessile in the divisions of the branches, and terminal, embosomed in leaves, usually 

 pink. Lindl. 



FRANKEXIA, L. Styles 3, united below, stigmatic along the inner surf ace ; capsule 

 loculicidal; many-seeded. Torr. $ Gray. 



