54 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



SYMPHORICARPUS OCCIDENT ALIS, K. Br. Hall & Harbour, 227. 

 Canon City, Brandegee. B. H. Smith. Near Denver and Colorado 

 Springs, Porter. 



LONICERA INVOLUCRATA, Banks. Hall & Harbour, 226. Near Den- 

 v^r, Dr. Smith. Along streams in the foot-hills and among the moun- 

 tains, Porter. Mount Lincoln, at 13,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



SAMBUCUS RACEMOSA, L., var. PUBENS, Watson. (S. pubens, MX.) 

 Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Chicago Lakes, at 10,000 feet alti- 

 tude, Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 feet, and Mount of the Holy Cross, 

 Coulter. 



VIBURNUM PAUCIFLORUM, Pylaie. Hall & Harbour, 228. 



RUB1ACE42. 



GALIUM APARINE, L. Near Canon City, Brandegee. Plains of the 

 Platte, Coulter. 



GALIUM ASPERRIMUM, Gr. PL Fendl., p. 60. Stems diffuse, prickly 

 backward on the angles; leaves all in sixes, lanceolate, attenuate at 

 base, or the lower obovate-lanceolate and f long, bristly-acuminate, 

 glabrous, shining, very rough-prickly backwards on the margins and keel 

 beneath, those of the branches small, much shorter than the peduncle ; 

 cymes paniculate, several-flowered, dichotomous ; corolla 2" in diameter ; 

 petals 3-nerved, ovate, acuminate, white, rather large; ovary densely 

 covered with short uucinate hairs. Cucharas Eiver, Huerfano County, 

 Greene. 



GALIUM TRIFIDUM, L. Hall & Harbour, 230. 



GALIUM TRIFLORUM, MX. Plains of the Platte, Coulter. 



GALIUM BOREALE, L. Very common everywhere among the moun- 

 tains and exhibiting a great diversity of forms. Hall & Harbour, 

 229; B. H. Smith; Coulter. 



VALER1ANACEJE. 



VALERIANA DIOICA, L., var. SYLVATICA, Watson. (V. sylvatica, 

 Kichards.) Hall & Harbour, 231; Parry ; Brandegee; Dr. Smith; Meehan. 

 Twin Lakes and Clear Creek Canon, Coulter. 



VALERIANA EDULIS, Nutt. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Canon City, 

 Brandegee. Clear Creek Canon and Bear Creek, Coulter. 



COMPOSITE. 



LIATRIS PUNCTATA, Hook. Stems 8'-3 high from a thick, knotted, 

 fusiform root, glabrate, leafy to the top ; leaves linear, rigid, strongly 

 punctate on both sides, glabrous or their margins sometimes cili- 

 ate, lower ones 3'-5' long, slightly 3-iierved, I' 1 -3" wide, pungently 

 acute; heads in a dense spike, 4'-10' long, 4-6 flowered; flowers 

 reddish-purple; scales of the cylindraceoiis involucre oblong, strongly 

 punctate, imbricated, appressed, with mucronate, acuminate, rather 

 spreading tips, margins woolly-ciliate; bristles of the pappus about 30, 

 purplish or white, very plumose; achenia hairy. Hall & Harbour, 

 315; Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith. North Park, Dr. Hay den. Eather com- 

 mon on the plains around Denver and Colorado Springs, Porter. 



