34 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



and calyx tomentose-pubescent ; calyx-segments ovate, spreading; car- 

 pels hirsute. Abundant in mountain ravines at middle elevations. 

 Hall & Harbour, 149 ; Parry; Canby ; B. H. Smith ; Meehan. Ute Pass, 

 Coulter. 



EUBUS NUTKANUS, Mo. Bare, Parry. Near Long's Peak, Coulter. 



EUBUS DELICIOSUS, Torr. Ann. N. T. Lye., 2, p. 196. Shrub, 3-4 

 high, branched ; branches, young leaves and calyx tomeutose-pubes- 

 cenfc or puberulent, not glandular; leaves reniforni-orbicuJar, rugose, 

 lJ'-2' in diameter, more or less 3-5 lobed, finely serrate-toothed; 

 stipules lanceolate, scarious, persistent; peduncle 1-7 flowered ; flowers 

 2' in diameter; sepals oval-oblong, with a dilated acurnination, shorter 

 than the oblong, white petals; fruit large, smooth, purplish, flavor not 

 agreeable to the human palate, but prized by bears. Hall & Harbour, 

 103 ; Parry, 210. Chiann Canon and Glen Eyrie, Porter. Clear Creek 

 Canon, Coulter. 



EUBUS TRIFLORUS, Eichards. Hall & Harbour, 164. Bear Creek, 

 Coulter. 



EUBUS STRIGOSUS, Michx. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Chiauu Canon, 

 Porter. 



PURSHIA 1 TRIDENTATA, DO. Shrub, 2-4 Q high; stipules minute; 

 leaves 3' '-12" long ; calyx-lobes ovate,, obtuse; petals obovate, exceed- 

 ing the calyx, 3"-5" long; fruit 6 7/ long, tardily dehiscent, 2-valved. Rare. 

 Parry; Meehan. Mountain of the Holy Cross, Coulter. 



CERCOCARPUS 2 PARVIFOLIUS, Nutt. Shrub 2-10 Q high, branching 

 from the ground; leaves 6"-8" long,, cuneiform-obovate, silky-pubes- 

 cent or nearly glabrous above, toineutose-canescent beneath, serrately- 

 toothed towards the apex, strongly nerved ; flowers solitary or 2-4 

 together on slender pedicels ; calyx-Jube becoming y in length ; tail ot 

 the fruit 4" long, densely plumose. Hall & Harbour, 165 ; Dr. Smith ; 

 B. H. Smith* At the base of the foot-hills and extending into the mount- 

 ains, Porter. 



AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA, L. Colorado Springs, Eed field. 



DRYAS OOTOPETALA, L. Low, suffruteseeut ; leaves oblong-ovate, 

 coarsely crenate-toothed, obtuse at each end, clothed with a white to- 

 rn entum, beneath, the veins prominent, the margins revolute; stipules 

 aduate to the petiole; peduncles terminal, 1-flowered ; sepals linear; 

 flowers white or yellowish. Alpine. Hall & Harbour, 153 ; Hoopes. 



1 PURSHIA, DO. Calyx persistent, tubular- infundibuliform, imbricately 5 -lobed. 

 Petals white, unguiculate. Stamens 10-25, in one series, with free filiform filaments 

 and large anthers. Carpels 1-2, free ; style short, curved, persistent, stigmatose at the 

 top and on one side ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit coriaceous, ovate-oblong, pubescent, 

 sessile, exceeding the calyx. Seed with a membranous double testa, the two coatings 

 separated from one another by a layer of deep purple, intensely bitter, granular matter ; 

 cotyledons flat, obovate ; radicle short, inferior. A diffusely-branched, leafy shrub, 

 tomentose and somewhat glandular-pubescent upon the leaves, calyx, and fruit ; leaves 

 small, alternate and fascicled, sub-cuneiform, 3-cleft, the lobes short linear with revo- 

 lute margins, canescent beneath ; flowers yellow, subsessile, solitary, axillary and ter- 

 minal. Watson in Cl. King's Hep., Vol. V. 



- CERCOCARPUS, H. B. K. Calyx-tube persistent, cylindrical, long and pedicelliform, 

 terete ; lobes of the hemispheric deciduous limb 5, small, valvate. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens 15-25, in 2-3 series, seated on the limb of the calyx,, with short free incurved 

 filaments, and anthers.ofteu pubescent. Ovary solitary, with a single sub-erect ovule ; 

 style filiform, villous.. Achenium linear-oblong, coriaceous, included in the calyx, cau- 

 date with the persistent long plumose style ; seed linear, with a membranous testa, 

 elongated cotyledons, aaid inferior radicle. Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple 

 leaves and axillary or terminal flowers. Benfh. $ Hook. 



