108 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



GILIA INCONSPICUA, Dougl. Gr. Rev. I. c., 278. Annual, erect, 4'-li >/ 

 high, glabrate or viscid-glandular and pubescent, branched and loosely 

 panicled; leaves alternate, the lower 1-2 pinnatifid or pinnate-toothed; 

 flowers scattered, on slender pedicels, purple or blue, rarely white, 3"-5" 

 long, funnel-form, with the throat more or less dilated, 2-3 times the 

 length of the calyx, the tube little or not at all exserted, the lobes ovate 

 or obovate, mostly exceeding the stamens; filaments slender; cells 

 many ovuled ; verv variable. Canon City, Brandegee. Hall & Harbour, 

 457." 



POLEMONIUM CONFERTUM, Gr. Or. Rev. I. c., 280. Perennial, G'-8' 

 high, glandular- viscid and musk-scented, woolly-pubescent above ; leaf- 

 lets very numerous, small, V-A" long, mostly as if wh oiled or fascicled, 

 being 2-5 divided and sessile, segments either broadly oval or linear- 

 oblong; flowers capitate-crowded, at length raceinose-spicate, some- 

 what nodding, honey-scented ; lobes of the calyx narrow, twice shorter 

 than the cylindrical or oblong tube ; corolla 8 // -12 // long, blue, the nar- 

 row funnel-form tube longer than the calyx and 2-3 times longer than 

 its rounded lobes ; filaments barely hairy and scarcely dilated at base. 

 Hall & Harbour, 450 and 451. Gray's Peak, at 12,000 feet altitude and 

 Horse Shoe Mountain, at 11,000 feet, Coulter. B. If. Smith ; 'Red-field. 



Var. MELLITUM, Gr. Laxer in leaflets and inflorescence, with a pale 

 or whitish corolla V long, the lobes one-fourth the length of the narrow 

 tubes. Alpine, 2 / -3 / high. Hall & Harbour. Sangre do Cristo Range, 

 Brandegee. 



POLEMONIUM YISCOSUM, Nutt. Gr. Rev. I. c., 280. Low, 3'-4' high, 

 pubescent and very viscid-glandular; leaflets very entire,, ovate or 

 rounded ; flowers subcorymbose; calyx subcampanulate, lobes elongated- 

 lanceolate, (broadish, Gray;} corolla-tube equaling the calyx, not exceed- 

 ing its own lobes. Gray's Peak, B. H. Smith. 



POLEMONIUM C^ERULEUM, l^.Hall & Harbour, 449. Twin Lakes, 

 Co niter / Porter. 



Tar. FOLIOSISSIMTJM, Gr. Gr. Eev. I. c., 281. Very viscid-pubescent; 

 stems 2 high, with the corymbose branches very leafy to the top; leaf- 

 lets often confluent on a wing-margined rachis; stamens and style mostly 

 shorter than the smaller white or blue corolla, which is twice longer 

 than the calyx. Hall & Harbour, 448. AVet Mountain Valley, Brande- 

 gee. Plains^of the Platte, Coulter. South Park, Porter. 



POLEMONIUM HUMILE, Willd. (P.pulchellum,T>\iiige.' 7 P. RichardsoniL 

 Grab.; P. capitatum, Beiith.; P. pulclierrimum, Hook.) Gr. Rev. I. c., 281. 

 Dwarf, 4'-S 7 high, branching from the base, softly glandular-pubescent ; 

 stems i-2 leaved ; leaflets ovate or oblong-ovate", acute, small ; flowers 

 subcorymbose, few, on rather long, slender pedicels, small, blue, tube 

 shorter than the calyx ; calyx cleft below the middle ; ovules 2-4 ; seeds 

 1-2 in each cell. Hall & Harbour, 452 ; Parry. Wet Mountain Valley, 

 Brandegee. Chicago Lakes, at 12,000 feet altitude, and Horse Shoe 

 Mountain, at 11,000 feet, Coulter. Subalpine woods. 



CONVOI/FUtACEJE. 



IPOM^EA LEPTOPHYLLA, Torr. in Fremont, 1st Rep., p. 1)4 ; Emory's 

 Rep., p. 148, t. 11. Annual(?), 2-3 high, much branched from the base; 

 branches long, spreading and prostrate, angular, glabrous; leaves 

 linear and lanceolate-linear, attenuated at both ends, strongly veined, 

 glabrous, mucronate-apiculate, short-petioled: peduncles 1-3 -flowered, 



