SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA X^C^LQ&^OO. -. - -Vl 01 



the spring-state of the former with larger flowers and greatly elongated 

 corolla tubes. Caiioii City, Brandegee. Meehan. Clear Creek. Coulter. 



LiTHOSPKR3iTDi HiRTUM, Lehm. Xear Denver, Dr Smith. 



LITHOSPERMUM piLOSUM, Xutt. Watson in King" >t Rep., vol. 5, 

 p. 238. Stems slender, branched, 1-1J high, strict, numerous from 

 a perennial root, hirsute, silicate; leaves broadly linear or linear-oblong, 

 l'-2' long, sub-acute, sessile, strigose and somewhat hispid; spikes very 

 leafy, elongated in fruit; flowers nearly sessile, yellow, <3" long, tube 

 much exceeding the linear sepals; calyx 5-parted, hirsute, lobes un- 

 equal. linear: nutlets \V long, smooth and shining. Hall tl* Harbour, 

 441. Parry. 21)5. Xear Denver, Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith. -Bear Creek, 

 Pleasant Park, and Clear Creek Canon, Coulter. 



MERTENSIA. PAXICVLATA, Don. Canon City, Brandegee; Parry. 



MERTEXSIA SIBIRICA, Don. Gr. Eei'.llert. Sill. Jour., (X. & J34, p. 340. 

 Glaucescent, glabrous or subpubeseeut, 1-5 G high; cauliiie leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, or often oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 mostly sessile or very short petioled ; calyx 5-parted, the lobes oblong or 

 oblong-linear, ciliate, obtuse, 2-4 times shorter than the corolla-tube, 

 Avhich is sparingly hairy or nearly glabrous within ; corolla 4"-6" in 

 length, limb 5-cleft, more than half longer than the tube ; filaments di- 

 lated, shorter than the anthers. Hall i(- Harbour, 442. Chicago Lakes, 

 at 11.000 feet altitude. Coulter. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Twin 

 Lakes, Porter. J>r Smith. Banks of mountain-streams ; variable. 



MERTEXSIA ALPIXA, Don. </>. Rev. 1. c., p. 340. Glabrous or hirsute, 

 6//_12/' high : leaves spatulate-oblong, lanceolate or the uppermost oblong- 

 ovate. rather small and mostly acute ; calyx-segments ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate and obtusish or linear-lanceolate and acute, ciliate, a little 

 shorter than the corolla-tube which equals the limb and is usually hairy 

 within: anthers inserted in the throat. Common on the plains and in the 

 mountains, and very variable. Hall cO Harbour, 444 and 445. Colorado 

 Springs and South Park, Porter. Canon City and AVet Mountain Valley, 

 Brandegee. Near Denver, Dr. Smith and B. H. Smith. Canbu. Horse 

 Shoe Mountain, at 11,000 feet altitude. Gray's Peak, at 12,000 feet, 

 Mount Lincoln, at lo.OOO feet, and Clear Creek Canon, at 0.000 feet, 

 Coulter. 



MBRTEXSIA BREVISTYLA, Watson. Kimj* Rep., vol. 5, p. 239. t. 

 23. Low, 4 / -10 / high, pubescent with short, appressed. rigid hairs, the 

 lower surface of the leaves excepted; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblanceolate, very obtuse; flowers in a loose panicle; calyx deeply 5- 

 cleft or 5-parted, very hirsute, lobes oblong or ovate-lanceolate, usually 

 acute ; corolla-tube short, but little exceeding the calyx and rarely as 

 long as the deep blue limb; anthers inserted near the base of the tube 

 and included within it; style very short. Hall i(- Harbour, 443. 



ERiTRicimni 1 YILLOSOI, DC. Prodr.. 10, p. 126. Stems 3 f -V high, 



M, Schr;i(l. Calyx 5-parttMl. Corolla salvcrform, the throat closed l>y 

 small obtuse scales. Stamens and style included. Nutlets 4. attached laterally, (usii- 

 ally near the base) the surface of insertion very narrow, imperforate at base, ilat (or 

 convex) anteriorly, the angles smooth or rarely creuate. Mostly annual, with entire 

 Ami commonly alternate leaves, the usually very small blue or white flowers in lateral 

 or axillary spieate racemes. DiHering- from 3yo9oti in the quiucuncial aestivation 

 of the corolla and the more or less lateral insertion of the nutlets, which are also usu- 

 ally rngo.se or granulate upon the back, and from EcJiinnapennnm in the attachment of 

 the nutlets (in most cases) not extending above the middle of the style, the nutlets not 

 dilated below, prickles rare and not barbed, and the attachment (if the seed ventral 

 and not at the apex. ])<'. Prodr. 



