94 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



to the top, leafy; leaves uniform, almost glabrous, thickish, obovate or 

 oblong, very obtuse, very entire or repand; pedicels short, alternate, 

 viscous-pubescent, as well as the calyx ; sepals ovate, shortly acuminate 

 or broadly lanceolate, margins not scarious; corolla purple, 1"-$" long; 

 tube cyliudraceous, limb shortly 2-lipped, upper lip deeply 2-lobed, 

 lower lip deeply 3-lobed, with a hispid beard in the throat; sterile fila- 

 ment dilated at the apex and bearded downwards; capsule scarce ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. " Mount Breckenridge on Blue River, west of the 

 main range, in the high alpine region near perpetual snow," Hall c(- 

 Harbour, 396. Brandegee. 



PENTSTEMOK CONFEKTUS, Dougl. Or. Rev., 1. c., p. 72. Very glabrous, 

 erect, 1-1J high; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, petioled, the upper 

 sessile and lanceolate or somewhat ovate, all entire; flowers densely 

 clustered in an interrupted spike, the upper cymes nearly sessile, 

 crowded, often reflexed; sepals broadly lanceolate or ovate, margins 

 white-scarious or erose-dentate or laciniate, acute or produced into a 

 long green acumination ; corolla 5"-$" long, sulphur-yellow, narrow, 

 somewhat bilabiate ; sterile filament bearded. 



Var. O^ERULEO-PURPUREUS, Gr. Stems 6'-2 high; corolla deep 

 bluish-purple. Hall & Harbour, 391. Twin Lakes, Porter. Brandegee; 

 B. H. Smith. Abundant throughout the mountains in damp places. 

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



CmoNOPHiLA 1 JAMESTI, Beuth. Low, glabrous, from a thick root-stock ; 

 stem scape-form, 1/-4' bigh, with a pair of leaves above the middle, 

 terminated by a crowded spike of flowers; radical leaves tapering into 

 the expanded membranaceous, hyaline bases, spatulate or oblong-linear, 

 obtuse, very entire, thickish ; dowers u-4, crowded ; bracts opposite 

 ovate, connate at base, obtuse or acute, unequal, flower in the axil of 

 the larger one which nearly equals its tube ; flowers yellowish, on very 

 short pedicels; calyx 4^"-^" long, companulate, teeth broad, obtuse; 

 corolla a little longer, lower lip densely tomentose within. Plant dries 

 black. Hall & Harbour, 397. "High alpine, Pike's Peak, 7 ' Meehav. 

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



MIMULUS LUTEUS, L. DC. Prod. 10, p. 370. Smooth orviscid-puberu- 

 lent, ascending or erect, 2 / -4 high ; leaves numerous, erose-dentate or 

 denticulate, orbiculate, ovate, or suboblong, the lower loug-petioled and 

 often sublyrate, the upper sessile or cordate-amplexicaul, about 7-iierved, 

 shorter than the peduncles; calyx ovate, becoming inflated in fruit, 

 with ovate teeth, the upper one largest; tube of the dilated yellow 

 corolla twice longer than the calyx, the lower lip bearded. Very com- 

 mon in damp spots at middle elevations. _ffM & Harbour, 398 ; Bran- 

 degee j Porter Coulter. 



MIMULUS JAMESII, Torr., var. FREMONTII, Benth. Pedicel slender, 

 longer than the leaf; flowers smaller. Hall & Harbour, 399. Cherry 

 Creek, near Denver, Dr. Smith. 



MIMULUS FLORIBUNDUS, Gr. DC. Prod. 10, p. 372. Viscidly-pilose; 

 stem slender, 2 / -18 / long, diffusely branching at the base, ascending- 

 leaves petioled, 3'-18' long, ovate, dentate, or denticulate, lower sub- 

 cordate, somewhat pinnately 5-7 nerved ; peduncles axillary to nearly 



1 CHIONOPHILA, Benth. in DC. Prod. 10, p. 1, 331. Calyx large, membranous, 4-5 toothed, 

 the fifth tooth smaller. Tube of the corolla scarcely exsert ; lips short, broad, upper one 

 emarginate, somewhat concave, lower spreading, short-tritid. Fertile stamens 4, 

 declined at base, at length ascending ; anthers glabrous ; cells confluent ; filament of 

 the fifth stamen, sterile, scarcely shorter than the others. Apex of the style slightly 

 stigmatose. Ovaries numerous in each cell. 



