SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 99 



/,. Kuro/Mt'nx, L., vsuc.xiiUiatuft, (Jr. Manual, p. 346.) Canon City, If ran- 

 de(/ee. 



PYCNANTHEMUM: LANCEOLATOi, Pursh. Xear Denver, Dr. Smith. 



C-ALAMrxTHA CLIXOPODIU:M:, Benth. Sierra Madre Range, at 10,000 

 feet altitude, Coulter. 



HEDEOIMA IIISPIDA, Pursh. Hall & Harbour, 423. (H. hirta, Xutt.) 



HEDEOMA DRU^IMOXDII, Benth. DC. Prod., 12, 245. Gray in Proc. Am. 

 Acad.i May, 1872, 8, p. 367. An nual,cinereous-puberulent or pubescent, 

 4'-6' high, branched from the base; leaves oval, oblong, or the upper 

 ones linear, obtuse, very entire, sessile or narrowed at the base into a 

 petiole; whorls few- flowered; calyx ovate, tubular, hispid, scarcely 2- 

 lipped. teeth all subulate-setaceous, conuiveut, erect after flowering and 

 more or less curved upward, lower ones twice longer than the upper, 

 more or less shorter than the corolla. Hall & Harbour, 424. Purgatory 

 Kiver, Dr. Bell. Median. 



HEDEOMA PIPERITA, Benth. Gray, I. c.,- p. 306. Cinereous-pubescent 

 or puberulent; leaves ovate, obtuse, usually rounded at the base, 

 uppermost floral ones sometimes oblong, petiolate; whorls loose, few- 

 many-flowered ; calyx oblong- tubular, gibbous, hirsute, 2-lipped, upper 

 lip spreading, with subulate teeth, the lower with longer, more setaceous 

 erect teeth, about equaling the corolla. Bluffs of the Arkansas near 

 Pueblo, 1873, Greene. 



SAL VIA LANCEOLATA, Willd. (V. trichostemmoidcs, Pursh.) Canescently 

 pubescent; stems 3' -15' high, herbaceous, ascending, branched; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, l'-2' long, rather obtuse or acuminate, nar- 

 rowed at the base into a long slender petiole, sparsely and obtusely ser- 

 rulate in the middle; bracts subulate, a little longer than the short 

 pedicels; raceme simple. 2 / -4 / long, whorls about 2-flowered, all remote; 

 calyx tubular, striate, puberulent, enlarged in fruit, inflated at the base, 

 teeth acute; corolla blue, a little longer than the calyx, and with it 4" 

 long; style short-bearded. Hall cO Harbour, 426. Nar Denver, 7>r. 

 Smith. Plains around Colorado Springs, Porter; Median. 



SALVIA PITCHERI, Torr. DC. Prod, 12, p. 302. Tomentose-pubesceut 

 or canescent: stem herbaceous, lj-2 high, erect, simple or branching 

 above; leaves oblong-lanceolate, ~or linear, acute, subserrate, narrowed 

 at the base, but scarcely petioled, somewhat tomentose beneath, smoother 

 above; raceme simple, elongated, (6') whorls distant, 6-15-flowered; 

 bracts lance-linear, much longer than the pedicels and often equaling the 

 calyx; calyx subsessile, tubular, striate, villose, teeth 3, broad, obtuse ; 

 corolla twice or more longer than the calyx, pubescent on the outside ; 

 style bearded. HaU d' Harbour, 427. Eastern Colorado, Porter; Dr. 

 Smith. 



MONARDA ARiSTATA,Xutt. DC. Prod., 12, p. 363. Canescent, lhigh, 

 with numerous spreading branches; leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, 

 narrowed at the base, sharply and remotely serrate, floral ones and outer 

 bracts sessile, somewhat colored, tipped with a long subulate awn ; 

 whorls many-flowered, compact, remote ; calyx striate. pubescent, beard- 

 ed in the throat, teeth nearly equal, long, subulate, pilose, penicillate at 

 the apex; tube of the corolla scarcely longer than the calyx-teeth. 

 Plains and base of the foot-hills, HaU& Harbour, 428. Colorado^Springs, 

 Porter. Near Denver, /?. H. Smith. Plains of the Platte, Coulter. Wet 

 Mountain Valley, Red field. 



MONARDA FISTULOSA,L. Very common along streams on the plains 



