100 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



aud extending into the mountains. Colorado Springs and Denver, /'or 

 ter. Canon City, Brandegee. B. H. Smith; Dr. Smith. 

 MONARDA PUNCTATA, L. Foot-hills west of Denver, Dr. Smith. 



MONARDELLA 1 ODORATISSIMA, Beutll. DC. Prod., V2, p. 190. Stems 



numerous, from a woody base, procumbent, O'-IO' high ; leaves subses- 

 sile, oblong-lanceolate, G"-12" long, very entire, or with a few denticu- 

 lations, acute at each end; hoary, or at length becoming green; heads 

 of flowers 9" -12" in diameter; outer bracts broadly ovate, very obtuse, 

 colored, equaling the elongated tubular calyces; lobes of the rose-col- 

 ored corolla oblong-linear, 3" long; calyx-teeth and margins of the bracts 

 softly villose. Gothic Mountain, August, Coulter. 



LOPIIANTIIUS URTiCvEFOLius, Bentb. DC. Prod., 12, p. 368. Gla- 

 brous, erect, i,-4 high ; leaves cordate-ovate, creuate or serrate, green 

 upon both sides, obtuse or the uppermost acute, the floral ones sessile, 

 ovate and acute; bracts few, lanceolate or lance-linear, shorter than 

 the calyx; spikes dense, oblong, 2 / -4 / long ; calyx 2 // -G // long, incurved, 

 glabrous or puberulent, the throat oblique, the membranous teeth 

 colored, long-subulate-acuminate, the upper ones longest : corolla pur- 

 ple, short-exserted, the throat slightly inflated and limb short; stamens 

 much exserted. Sierra Madre liange, Coulter. 



LopHAjrmrs AMSVTUS, Benth. Hull iC* Harbour, 42;). [Mains near 

 Denver, Coulter. 



DRACOCEPHALUM PARVIFLORUM, Benth. Rail ti; Harbour, 4:>o. Twin 

 Lakes, Coulter. Upper Arkansas, Porter. Georgetown, I>r. Smith. 

 Canon of the Arkansas, Redfield. 



BRUNELLA VULGAKLS, L. Canon City, Brandegee; Redfield. 



SCUTELLARIA RESixosA, Torr. DC. Prod., 12, p. 427. Minutely glandu- 

 lar pubescent or puberulent, much branched from the base, 2 / -12 / high ; 

 leaves J'-l' long, short-petioled, broadly ovate, obtuse, entire or eremite, 

 rounded or cuneate at base, floral ones similar; flowers axillary, oppo- 

 site, secund, very variable in size; corolla blue, 2 // -l / long, densely vil- 

 lous, attenuate at base, usually more than four times longer than the 

 herbaceous calyx. Hall cf* Harbour, 431. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. 

 South Park, Porter. Canon City, Brandegee. Bear Creek, Clear Creek 

 and Saint Train River, Coulter*. 



SCUTELLARIA G-ALERICULATA, L. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Canon 

 City, Brandegee. Hall & Harbour, 432. 



STACHYS PALUSTRLS; L., var. COEDATA Gr. (S. cordata.Iii&d.) Near 

 Denver, Dr. Smith. Cafioo City, Brandegee. Meehan. Near Colorado 

 Springs, Porter. Plains of the Platte, Coulter ; Redfield. 



ONOSMODIUM CAROLINIANUM, DC. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Canon 

 City, Brandegee. Plains of the Platte, Coulter. 



LITHOSPERMUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, MX. (Including L. longiflorum, 

 Spreng.) The latter, according to M. E. Bebb, Am. Nat. 7, p. 691, is only 



A, Benth. Calyx tubular, often elongated, 10-13-nerved, 5-toothed ; 

 teeth short, nearly equal, straight, throat naked within ; corolla-tube equaling the 

 calyx or slightly exserted, the throat glabrous within; somewhat bilabiate, the upper 

 lip 2-cleft, the lower 3-cleft, and the lobes all oblong or linear, flat and nearly equal. 

 Stamens 4, somewhat equal, or the lower ones longer, straight, divergent, and exserted. 

 Anthers with two parallel cells, becoming divergent or divaricate. Styles very shortly 

 2-cleft. Nutlets drv. 



