42 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



as Dr. Gray has observed in those of P. serpyllifolius. Webster Canon, 

 Redjield. 



KIBES HIRTELLUM, Wx.Hall & Harbour, 187. Canon City, Brandegee. 

 Clear Creek Canon, Coulter. Ute Pass, Porter. 



KIBES IRRIGKJUM, Dougl. Stems 6 high, branches red. narked or 

 prickly; subaxillary spines 3 or sometimes more, stout, rarely redexed; 

 leaves roundish, 5-lobed, I'-IJ' in diameter, cuneate, truncate or sub- 

 cordate at base, crenately-serfate, nearly glabrous, somewhat hairy be- 

 tween the veins beneath and somewhat ciliate ; peduncles slender and 

 usually elongated, 3-flowered, glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent ; 

 the bracts somewhat gland ular-ciliate; calyx cylindrical and narrow 

 (with the ovary often J'long), glabrous, the segments linear-oblong, ex- 

 ceeding the tube, sometimes reflexed; petals short, oblong-spatulate, 

 purplish-white ; the stamens usually exceeding the calyx, but shorter 

 thau the deeply cleft style ; filaments and style hairy ; fruit rather large, 

 smooth, deep-purple, edible. Wilson's Creek, Brandegee. 



KIBES LEPTANTHOT, Gr. PL FendL, p. 53. Shrub 2-4 high, 

 diffusely branched, without prickles; subaxillary spines solitary, stout, 

 rarely two or three; the dense, minute pubescence glandular or often 

 mixed with resinous dots, or the whole plant glabrous; leaves small, 

 4"-6" broad, numerous, 5-cleft, lobes incised ; peduncles short, deflexed ; 

 flowers 1-2, nearly sessile, yellow, 2"-4" long; bracts rounded, shorter 

 than the ovary; calyx tubular or somewhat campauulate, more or less 

 silky-pubescent, the lobes subspatulate, more or less reflexed, equaling 

 the tube and about twice longer than the stamens and petals; style 

 glabrous, undivided; stigmas 2; fruit unarmed, glabrous. -Canon City, 

 Brandegee. Webster Canon, Red field. 



KIBES LACUSTRE, Poir. Hall & Harbour, 184. Westoii's Pass, Coulter. 



KIBES PROSTRATUM, L' Her. Hall & Harbour. 



KIBES CEREUM, Dougl. Diffusely branching shrub, 1 6 high? 

 unarmed; leaves roundish, J'-l' broad, mostly cordate, 3-5-lobed. iucise- 

 ly crenate, viscid-puberulent or nearly glabrous, resinous-dotted; 

 racemes nodding on short peduncles, crowded, 3-5-liowered; bracts ovate? 

 appressed to the nearly - sessile ovary; calyx tubular, 3 // -4 // long, 

 glandular, segments very short, recurved, pinkish-white; petals minute, 

 orbicular; stamens included ; style undivided; stigmas 2; fruit globose, 

 glandular, light red. Hall & Harbour, 180. Glen Eyrie, Porter. Canon 

 City, Brandegee. Clear Creek Canon, and common through the moun- 

 tains, Coulter. 



KIBES FLORIDUM, L' Her. On the Platte near Denver, Dr. Smith. 



KIBES AUREUM, Pursh. Shrub, neither prickly nor spiny, with long 

 slender drooping branches, glabrous; leaves convolute in vernation, 

 rather thick, 3-lobed, lobes divaricate, incisely few toothed, ciliate when 

 young; petioles and peduncles minutely puberulent; raceme many- 

 flowered, with foliaceous bracts exceeding the pedicels ; calyx tubular, 

 very slender, segments spreading, shorter than the tube, twice the length 

 of the petals, yellow ; style undivided ; fruit yellowish or black, gla- 

 brous, edible. Hall & Harbour, 188. Plains near Denver, May, Coulter. 

 Cultivated for the fragrance of its flowers, under the name of *" Missouri 

 Currant." 



CRASSULACE.E. 



SEDUM KHODIOLA, VG.Hall & Harbour, 191; Dr. Smith; Porter. 

 Mount Lincoln at 13,000 feet altitude, July, Coulter. Gray's Peak, Red- 

 field. 



