40 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



subunguiculate petals; capsules purple, divergent. Hall & Harbour* 

 193. South Park, Porter. Near Long's Peak and Westou's Pass, Coulter. 



SAXIFRAGA INTEGRIFOLIA, Hook. Very viscidly-pubescent; leaves 

 all radical, ovate or oblong-obovate, very obtuse, entire or slightly sinuate- 

 eremite; scape elongated, l-3 high, paniculate at the apex, rather 

 narrow or sometimes expanded, bracteate; petals obovate, twice the 

 length of the glabrous, spreading, or at length reflexed, round-ovate, 

 obtuse segments of the calyx; stamens short, styles free. Sierra Madre 

 Kange, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



SAXIFRAGA JAMESII, Torr. Glandular-puberulent; stems 2 / -G / 

 high from a thick caudex, more or less leafy, 5-10 flowered; radical 

 leaves on rather long petioles, reuiform-cordate, smoothish, crenately- 

 toothed or lobed; cauline ones few, the uppermost bract-like, cuneiform : 

 raceme compound; flowers large; calyx-tubecainpanulate, cohering with 

 the base of the ovary, the segments triangular-ovate, rather acute, about 

 as long as the slender claw or the orbicular, purple petals; stamens 10. 

 Hall & Harbour, 203. In clefts of the rocks in Chiann ('anon, Porter. 

 Pike's Peak, Canby. 



TELLIMA 1 PARVIFLORA, Hook. (lAtliopliragma, Nutt.) Boot more or 

 less granulate; stems 6'-15' high, scabrous hirsute, with 1-2 ten lately- 

 divided or lobed leaves; segments 3-cleft, 4-8 flowered, occasionally 

 bulb-bearing; leaves '-2' in diameter; pedicels sub erect, usually 

 shorter than the calyx, which is obcouic, elongating in fruit and densely 

 glandular-hirsute; petals white, much exserted, deeply 5-cleft, projecting 

 1"_3" beyond the calyx; ovary adnate above the middle; seeds oblong, 

 minutely" roughened. Hall & Harbour, 206. 



MITELLA PENTANDRA, Hook. Leaves all radical, cordate, slightly 

 lobed, creuately-serrate; scape slender, 1-1J high, naked; calyx cam- 

 pauulate with spreading lobes, adherent to the middle of the ovary; 

 petals white, linear or filiform, deeply 3-cleft, longer than the calyx; 

 stamens 5, with very short filaments, alternate with the petals; stigma 

 entire; capsule opening prematurely. Hall & Harbour, 208; Parry. 

 Sierra Madre Kauge, at 11,500 feet altitude, Coulter. 



CHRYSOSPLENIUM ALTERNIFOLIUM, L. Flowering stems erect ; leaves 

 alternate, reuiform-cordate, doubly crenate or somewhat lobed ; flowers 

 corymbose. Hall & Harbour, 576. 



HEUCHERA BRACTEATA, Scringe. Small and nearly glabrous or 

 minutely puberulent ; scapes numerous from a thick, ligneous caudex, 

 leafless or bracted; radical leaves roundish-subcordate, about V in 

 diameter, incisely lobed, lobes short, crenately toothed, subciliate, teeth 

 setaceously mucronate; flowers crowded in a spicate, somewhat com- 

 pound raceme V to 1J' long; calyx campanulate, oblong, almost 5-cleft 

 to the middle, lobes spatulate-oblong ; petals attenuate, acute, scarcely 

 broader than the filaments; styles and stamens at length exserted; 

 thyrsus commonly more or less secund; flowers barely 2" in length. In 

 clefts of the rocks. Hall & Harbour, 205. Parry, 172; Dr. Smith; B. 

 H. Smith. On the road from Denver to Idaho Springs, Porter. 



HEUCHERA PARVIFOLIA, Nutt. Scabrous-puberulent ; scape naked, 



1 TELLIMA, Brown. Calyx campanulate, dilated, prolonged beyond the ovary and 

 adherent to it at base, 5-tootlied or cleft, valvate. Petal 5, entire or divided, inserted 

 on the throat of the calyx with the 10 small, included stamens. Ovary half-superior, 

 conical, 1-celled, with 2-3 parietal, many-ovuled placenta' ; styles 2-3, short. Capsule 

 wholly or half inferior, membranous, 2-3-valved, many-seeded. Erect, simple, pilose 

 or glandular herbs with petioled, rounded-cordate, lobed leaves and terminal racemes. 

 Bmili. and Hook. 



