SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 107 



wedge-obovate lobes 2"-4 / ' loiig ; anthers in the some wh at funnel-form 

 throat oblong, cells 8-10 ovuled; seed-coat close, without mucilage or 

 spiracles. Hall & Harbour, 463. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Upper Ar- 

 kansas, Porter. E. H. Smith. Canon City, Brandegee. Twin Lakes, 

 Coulter. 



GILIA MINIMA, Gr. Or. Rev. 1. c., 269. Low, J'-l' high, simple or 

 branched, smoothish ; leaves pimiately divided with the acerose, spines- 

 cent segments widely divaricate ; bracts densely crowded, almost hiding 

 the small white flowers, nearly glabrous ; calyx slightly hairy in the 

 sinuses, teeth unequal, entire or two of them somewhat divided ; corolla 

 li" long, about equaling the calyx tube ; stamens shorter than the cor- 

 olla-lobes ; cells 1-3 ovuled, 1-seeded. Colorado, Vasey. 



GLLIA SPICATA, Nutt. Gr. Rev. 1. c. 7 273. Perennial ; stem stout, erect, 

 4'-10' high, bearing many heads crowded in a long virgate interrupted 

 leafy spike, densely woolly-tomentose ; leaves trifld or very entire, 

 scarcely pointed, alternate, becoming smooth; lobes of the. corolla ob- 

 long-ovate, shorter" than the more or less exserted tube ; anthers sub- 

 sessile in the throat, cells 4-6-ovuled. Hall & Harbour, 400. Northern 

 Colorado, Hayden. 



Yar. CAPITATA, Gr. Smaller; leaves verv entire; flowers in a single 

 terminal head. Hall iFHarbour, 461. Weston's Pass, at 11-12,000 feet 

 altitude, Coulter. 



GILIA COXGESTA, Hook. Gr. Rev. I. c., 274. Perennial, more or 1 >s 

 woolly-pubescent, bearing single, terminal or few corymbose and close 

 heads; stems 3'-12' high; leaves very entire or 3-7 pinnately-parted, 

 with 3-7 narrowly-linear segments, divisions aristulate-mucronate; co- 

 rolla salver-form, white, the tube about equaling the oval lobes, not ex- 

 ceeding the usually awned calyx-segments; filaments inserted in the 

 sinuses, equaling or exceeding the anthers ; cells 2-4-ovuled. South 

 Park, Canby. Gray's Peak, B. H. Smith. Hoopes. 



GILIA AGGREGATA, Spreng. Gr. Rev. I. c., 275. Biennial, more or 

 less pubescent; stems l-4 high, less leafy above and loosely branch- 

 ing; leaves alternate, pinnately-parted, with linear, mucronulate-apicu- 

 late segments ; panicle contracted in to a virgate spike or loose with open 

 branches ; calyx usually glandular, lobes subulate ; corolla deep scarlet, 

 varying to light pink or even white or variegated and spotted, tubular- 

 funnel-form, 6"-20" long, with ovate or lanceolate-acute, widely spread- 

 ing or soon recurved lobes ; filaments either exserted or included ; 

 anthers oval or short-oblong; ovules numerous; seeds mucilaginous and 

 spiraliferous. Very common on the plains on dry slopes and among the 

 foot-hills up to an elevation of 9,000 feet. Hall & Harbour 459; Parry ; 

 Dr. Smith; B.H. Smith; Canby. North Park, Hayden. Porter; Coulter. 



GILIA PIXNATIFLDA, Nirtt. Gr. Rev. I. c., 276. Minutely viscid-glan- 

 dular, especially above ; stem 6' '-2 high ; leaves pinnately-piimatifid, 

 narrowly lanceolate in outline, lobes uniform, oblong, 3" long, curved 

 upward, apiculate, rarely cleft ; panicle ample, thyrsoid or sometimes 

 widely spreading and corymbose ; bracts linear or subulate, few ; corolla 

 salver-form, white or bluish, tube about twice longer than the calyx, a 

 little longer than its obovate lobes ; filaments inserted beneath the sinu- 

 ses, much exserted ; anthers ovate ; cells 6-8 ovuled ; seeds neither mu- 

 cilaginous nor spiraliferous. Hall & Harbour, 456. South Park, Canby. 

 Common on the plains around Denver, Dr. Smith. Colorado Springs, 

 Porter. Canon City, Brandegee. B. H. Smith. Pleasunt Park and La 

 Plata Mountain, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



