(Hi SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



APLOPAPPUS MA cm >N mi A , ( 1 r., Proc. Am. A cad., v. 0, p. 541*. ( Macro- 

 nema dittcoidea, Nutt.) Branches erect from a woody base, 0'-9' high, terete, 

 white- to mentose ; leaves spatulate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 8"-12"long, 

 2"-3 // wide, obscurely 3-nerved, minutely glandular and scabrous; heads 

 single or few in a corymb, turbiuate; scales of the involucrefew, sub-equal, 

 broadly lanceolate, glandular, the outer ones more or less herbaceous ; 

 heads- about 25-flowered; rays none; branches of the style very long, 

 filiform, much exserted, the hispid portion twice as long as the stigmatic ; 

 achenia pubescent. Hall (( Harbour, 290. Twin Lakes and Sierra Ma- 

 dre Range, Coulter. 



APLOPAPPUS PYCKMLKUS, Or. (titenotux pyama'nx, T. & G. FL 3 T . Am. 

 2, p. 2.37.) Stems l'-2' high from a branching caudex, 1-flowered ; radical 

 leaves oblong-spatulate, I'-IJ' long, obtuse, somewhat 3-nerved, fimbri- 

 ate-ciliate; cauliue leaves 3^-4; head braeteate; outer scales of the 

 involucre foliaceous, oblong, or broadly obovate, very obtuse, pubes- 

 cent, inner ones oblong, rather acute, tinged with purple ; rays 12-10, 

 shorter than the scales of the involucre ; achenium pubescent. Alpine. 

 Hall & Harbour, 250. La Plata Mountain, at 14,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 

 Sangre de Cristo Pass, Brandegec. Gray's Peak. Dr. timith; Meehan. 



APC.OPAPPUS LYALLT, Gr., Proc. Am. Acad., March, 1803, p. 04. Note. 

 Pruinose-glandular throughout; stems 2'-3' high, leafy, monocephalous: 

 leaves very entire, sub-membranous, generally inucronate; radical 

 and lower' ones oblong-spatulate or oblauceolate, attenuate at the 

 base, uppermost lanceolate ; scales of the involucre loosely imbricated 

 in about 3 series, lanceolate, of nearly equal length, inner ones 

 acuminate with red tips, glaudulose-puberulent ; ligules 10-20, linear, 

 rather long; achenia almost linear, very glabrous ; hairs of the pappus 

 white, rather rigid, equaling the corolla of the disk. Alpine. Parry, 

 1873. 



APLOPAPPUS INULOIDES, T. G. Tomentose-woolly throughout, the 

 pubescence mostly persistent; stems branching from a woody caudex, 

 ascending, 4'-7' long ; radical leaves lanceolate, acute, tapering to the 

 base, entire, cauline ones lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sessile, partly 

 clasping; heads solitary, large ; involucre about 1 ; in diameter, scales 

 in several series, oblong, obtuse or acute, pubescent or woolly ; rays 

 very numerous, scarcely twice the length of the involucral scales, deep 

 yellow; achenia hairy. Subalpine. ffall& Harbour, 155. Sierra Mad re 

 Range, Coulter. 



APLOPAPPUS CROCEITS, Gr., Proc. Am. Acad., Mar., 1803, p. Or>. Xote. 

 Stem l-li high, sparingly leaved, monocephalous, at first woolly; 

 leaves coriaceous, glabrous, very entire, not conspicuously reticulated: 

 radical ones oblong-lanceolate, with the petiole O'-l long, cauliue lan- 

 ceolate or oblong, partly clasping at base; head naked, very large; in- 

 volucre hemispherical, 1' in diameter; scales oval, very obtuse, inner 

 ones somewhat erose-scabrous on the margin ; rays 50 or more, much 

 exserted, nearly 1' long, saffron -colored above; ovaries short, very 

 smooth ; pappus whitish, equaling the corolla of the disk. Subalpine. 

 Hall & Harbour, 257. Middle Park and Sierra Madre Range. Coulter. 



APLOPAPPUS FREMONTIT, Gr., Jour. Bout. Xat. Hist. /SV., v. 5. 

 Glabrous; stems erect or ascending from a woody base, / -12 / high. 

 corynibosely branched above, leafy ; leaves oblong, or linear-oblong, ses- 

 sile, partly clasping at the base, acute with a mucrouate tip, entire or oc- 

 casionally somewhat denticulate; lower ones 2 / -2 / long, W-l" wide, 

 tapering to the base; upper ones clasping by a broad base; heads termi- 

 nating the leafy branches, globose, about V in diameter; scales of the 



