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of 6-10 membranously margined, more or less united bracts ; petals 

 white, with an attenuated apex and quasi- obcordate; calyx-teeth short; 

 fruit pubescent, broadly oval, 3"-4" long and 3" broad, the thickish 

 wing more than half as wide as the seed; vittse 3 in the intervals, 6 

 upon the commissure, conspicuous; seed flattened. Hall & Harbour, 212. 



SANICULA MARLLANDICA, L. Canon City, Brandegee. Ute Pass, at 

 9,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



DAUCUS CAROTA, L. Xear Canon City, Brandegee. Introduced. 



HERACLEUM LANATUM, MX. Canon City, Brandegee. Plains of the 

 Platte and Twin Lakes, Coulter. 



JtBAUACJB. 



ADOXA 1 MOSCHATELLINA, L. Perennial, small and slender, herba- 

 ceous, 3' high; root tuberous ; radical leaves 2-3 ternately compound, on 

 long petioles, the cauline solitary, 1-2 ternate or incised ; flowers 4-6, 

 greenish, in a terminal capitulum, the lateral ones mostly pentamerous, 

 the terminal tetramerous. An alpine plant found also in the north of 

 Europe and Asia. It exhales the odor of musk. "Subalpine ; common f 

 Hall & Harbour, 223; Meehan. Mount Lincoln, at 13,000 feet altitude, 

 Coulter. 



CORTVACEJ:. 



CORNUS CANADENSIS, L. Hall & Harbour ; Parry, 437. 



CORNUS PUBESCENS, Nutt. ( C. sericea, p. (?) occidental^ T. and G.) Shrub 

 6 8 high ; branches sub-erect, branchlets spreading, more or less red- 

 dish, puberuleut when young; leaves l'-4' long, ovate or elliptical, acute 

 or acuminate, slightly pubescent, pale beneath, obtuse or acute at base; 

 cymes crowded, pubescent, li'-2' in diameter ; calyx-teeth minute ; petals 

 white, oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse ; stigma small, capitate ; drupe 

 subglobose, white, becoming lead-color. " Without the calyx-teeth, en- 

 larged stigma, and woolly pubescence of C. sericea, and nearer to C. 

 stolonij'era." Watson. Platte River, Coulter. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^:. 



LINXJEA BOREALIS, Gronov. Hall & Harbour, 224 ; Dr. Smith. Mount 

 Lincoln at 10,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



SYMPHORICARPUS MONTANUS, H. B. K. Shrub, 2-4 high, branching 

 widely ; leaves very variable, orbicular, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or obtuse, entire or sharply cleft and lobed, soft-pubescent and ciliate or 

 wholly glabrous and often glaucous, J'-IJ' long ; flowers axillary, solitary 

 on the ends of the short, leafy branches"; bracts much shorter than the 

 ovary; teeth of the calyx obtuse, glabrous or ciliate; corolla tubular or 

 funnel-form, 2 // -6 // , nearly glabrous within, usually light pink ; stamens 

 and style included ; fruit globular or oblong, white. Hall & Harbour, 

 225. Canon City, Brandegee ; Canby. Upper Arkansas, Porter. Wes- 

 ton's Pass, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



1 ADOXA, L. Flowers perfect. Tube of the calyx coherent with the lower part of the 

 ovary; the lirnb slightly 2-3 cleft. Petals 4-5 inserted on the limb of the calyx, united 

 at the base, spreading. Stamens 4-5, each filament 2-parted; the divisions bearing each 

 a single : celled peltate anther. Styles 4-5,subulate. Fruit an herbaceous and juicy berry, 

 4-5 celled, each cell with a single suspended seed. Seeds compressed, with a membrana- 

 ceous margin. T. 4- G. Fl. N. Am. 



