110 , SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



spines and pilose throughout with cinereous-stellate hairs; leaves pctioled, 

 spiny, pbovate in outline, 2'-3' long, 5-7 lobed, lobes obovate, obtuse ; 

 racemes 2 / -3 / long, 5-8-flowered ; peduncles! 7 long; pedicels 3"-4" long, 

 1-flowered, longer in fruit ; calyx villous, globose-cup-form, tube very- 

 spiny, longer spines 6" in length ; corolla yellow, about 5-cleft, the lobes 

 broadly ovate, acute, plicate ; stamens 5, unequal; anthers declined, one 



City, Brandegee. Porter. Plains of the Platte, Coulter. 



SOLANUM HETERODOXUM, Dunal. DC. Prod., 13, p. 331. In most 

 points like the preceding, but the leaves are smaller, less deeply lobed 

 and on longer petioles; the yellow spines are shorter; flowers corym- 

 bosely clustered, 3-5 ; corolla blue, small, 5"-6" in diameter, plicate, 

 hirsute-pubescent without, tube short, limb 5-cleft ; stamens 5, unequal, 

 half as long as the corolla; filaments short, smooth; berry globose, at 

 first green, then black, 2-celled. On the plains near Greeley, Porter. 



PHYSALIS ANGULATA, L. Canon City, Brandegee. Denver, JV, 

 Smith. 



PHYSALIS PUBESCENS, L. Canon City, Brandegee. 



PHYSALIS VISCOSA, L. Canon City, Brandegee. Colorado Springs, 

 Porter. 



PHYSALIS PENNSYLVANIA, L., var/ LANCEOLATA, Gr Plains of the 

 Platte and Pleasant Park, Coulter. Canon City, Brandegee. Denver, Dr. 

 Smith. Ute Pass, Porter. 



PHYSALIS LOBATA, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lye., 2, p. 220. Much branched 

 from the base; branches prostrate, decumbent or ascending, smooth, 

 angular, often 12 / -18 / long ; leaves oblong or ovate, irregularly lobed or 

 ivpand, sometimes lyrate, lobes very obtuse, abruptly narrowed into a 

 petiole, solitary or in pairs, nearly" smooth; flowers solitary, nodding, on 

 filiform peduncles about half as long as the leaves; calyx subcampanu- 

 late, with 5 acute lobes, minutely tomentose at the tips and margins, 

 often covered as well as the pedicels with minute white granules, about 

 2 J" in diameter ; corolla campamdate-rotate, purple or ochroleucous, 9" 

 in diameter; stamens 5, filaments shorter than the corolla, smooth. 

 Fructiferous calyx much inflated and larger than the berry, 1' long and 

 I' wide. Hall & Harbour, 4(>G. Colorado Springs, Porter. Canon City, 

 Brandegee. 



WiTHANiA 1 (?) CORONOPUS, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p.{155. (Sola- 

 tium Coronopm, Dunal.) Annual, erect or spreading, branched above; 

 leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sessile, tapering to the base, l'-2' 

 long, nearly entire, toothed or deeply pinnatiticl ; flowers solitary or in 

 pairs on slender pedicels Avhich are at length reflexed ; corolla dull yel- 

 low, "-" in diameter; fruit globose, size of a large pea, nearly white 

 when mature, covered or more by the calyx. Canon City, Brandegee. 

 Pueblo, Greene. 



NICOTIAN A ATTENUATA, Torr. " Annual, glutinous-pubescent or 



1 WITHANIA, Pauquy. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft; lobes subulate, inflated after 

 flowering, more or less covering the berry. Corolla campanulate, funnel-form or 

 subrotate, longer than the calyx, 5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the 

 corolla, equal or large ; filaments subulate, often dilated at the base, naked or squa- 

 mose; anthers yellow, oblong, equal to or shorter than the filaments. Ovavv ovate- 

 globose, smooth, closely surrounded at base by a thin glaiidulose, annular' disk, 2- 

 celled. Placentae, adnate to the dissepiment ; ovules many. Style simple, straight, 

 subulate, equal to the stamens or a little longer. Stigma capitate. I Jerry globose, v>- 

 eelled. Seeds many, subreniform. Embryo fleshy, subeircular. DC. Prodi; 13. 





