4 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



ceeding I 7 in diameter; petals flabelliform, twice exceeding the sub-villous 

 oval sepals ; basilar scale small, adnate ; acbenia crowded in an oval 

 head, smooth, turgid ; beak rather long, ensiform, scariotis-winged on 

 each side. In the high alpine region, close to the snow, Hall & Harbour, 

 17 ; Parry. Chicago Lakes at 12,000 feet altitude, June, Coulter. Gray's 

 Peak, 13,000 feet, Redfield. 



BANUNCULUS REPENS, L. Meehan ; Greene; Porter. 



KANUNCULUS PENNSYLVANICUS, L. Platte Kiver near Denver, Dr. 

 Smith. Wet Mountain Valley, Redfield. 



CALTHA LEPTOSEPALA, DC. Stem 1-leaved or naked, mostly 1- 

 flowered, erect, 3'-l high ; radical leaves on long petioles, ovate-cor- 

 date, obscurely crenate; sepals 8-10, oblong, white or tinged with blue; 

 style short and recurved ; stigma obtuse ; carpels 8-10, oblong. Very 

 abundant in subalpiue swamps. An excellent pot-herb. Hali & Har- 

 bour, 21; Parry ; Meehan; Brandegee; Coulter. May to September. 



TROLLIUS LAXUS, Salisb. Associated with the preceding, but less 

 common. Hall & Harbour, 22; Brandegee; Coulter. Gray's Peak, 

 Redfield. June and July. 



AQUILEGIA VULGARIS, L., var. BREVISTYLA Gr. (A. bremstyla, Hook.) 

 Stems low, 6'-$' high, spreading; leaves bi-ternate; leaflets 3-lobed, 

 crenate, 6"-9" long, creuatures ovate, rotund ; flowers small, blue, 

 about 6" long including the spur ; sepals oblong-ovate ; petals a little 

 exceeding the stamens; spurs hooked at the tip ; styles shorter, included. 

 Hall & Harbour, 23. Mountains near Pike's Peak, Canby ; Meehan. 



AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS, L. Styles longer than the stamens. Along 

 subalpiue rivulets. Mount Elbert near Twin Lakes, Porter. La Plata 

 Mountain at 11,000 feet altitude, July, Coulter. 



AQUILEGIA C^ERULEA, Torr. Ann. N. T. Lye. 2, p. 164. Spur straight, 

 very slender, l%'-2' ; sepals rhomboid-ovate, acute, longer than the 

 ipetals; stamens and style shorter than the coralla; stern l-3 high, 

 glabrous, few-flowered ; flowers 2'-2 y in diameter, pale blue, some- 

 times ochroleucous, pinkish or white. Leaves mostly radical, glaucous 

 beneath ; leaflets deeply cleft. On shaded mountain-slopes from 7-11 ,000 

 feet altitude. A very beautiful and showy plant in flower. June 

 to September. Hall & Harbour, 24; Parry; Dr. Smith; Porter; Coulter. 

 Gray's Peak, Redfield. 



AQUILEGIA CHRYSANTHA, Gr. Proc. Am. Acad. 8, p. 621, (A. leptocera. 

 Nutt., v&r.flava. Gr. PL Wright. 2, p. 9J Smaller than the former and 

 more slender in stems and foliage ; peduncles often pubescent ; flowers 

 deep yellow, spurs more slender; sepals abdut 9" long, lanceolate-oblong, 

 longer but not broader than the limb of the petals. Grand Canon of 

 the Arkansas, June 3, Brandegee. 



DELPHINIUM ELATUM, L., var. (?) OCCIDENTALS, Watson. Kintfs 

 Rep., vol. 5, p. 11. Tall, 5 high, glabrous or densely pubescent above; 

 leaves deeply 3-5 cleft, divisions broadly cuneate, somewhat 3-lobed and 

 sparingly gashed-toothed, the teeth narrowing abruptly to a callous 

 point; racemes many-flowered, often densely so, simple or pauicled; 

 flowers pubescent, sometimes white; spur longer than the sepals; 

 lower petals broad, slightly notched, often erosely-deutate, more or less 

 densely bearded, the claw spurred at base. In Coulter's specimens from 

 the Twin Lakes the spur is shorter than the sepals and the lower petals 

 are very acute; stems very stout; flowers large, in crowded racemes. 

 Hall & Harbour, 25; Coulter. 



