SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 117 



CHEXOPODIUM FREIMONTII, Watson. King's Rep., vol. 5, p. 287. 

 More or less farinose, G'-3 high, diffusely branched ; leaves oblong, 

 ovate or broadly triangular, mostly hastate, abruptly attenuate into a 

 slender petiole ; panicle loose and spreading, with short braetlets; 

 branchlets very slender; calyx-lobes carinate -cucullate; seed horizontal, 

 smooth and shining. Colorado Springs, Porter. Canon City, Brandegee. 



CHENOPODIU3I HYBRIDUM, L. Hall & Harbour, 485. "Low mount- 

 ains 77 Ute Pass, Porter. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Twin Lakes, Coulter. 



CHENOPODIUM GLAUCUM, L. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. 



BLITUZNI CAPITATOI. L. Near Denver, Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith. Col- 

 orado Springs, Porter. Twin Lakes, Mount La Plata, and Oro City, 

 Coulter. 



MoxoLEPis 1 CHEXOPODioiDES,Moq. DC.Prod., 13, 2d pt., p. 85. (Blititm 

 Xuttallianum, E. & S.) Glabrous, or somewhat glaucous and farinose*, 

 steins ascending or decumbent, 3 / -12 / high, branched; leaves $'-2' long, 

 attenuate into the petiole and hastate at base, the lobes acute and en- 

 tire or the middle one laciniate- toothed; flowers in rather dense clusters 

 in the axils, often reddish, the sepals lance-elliptic, obtuse, sometimes 

 abortive; seed rather acutely margined, minutely tuberculate and not 

 shining, J" in diameter. Hall & Harbour, 486. Colorado Springs, Porter. 

 Near Denver and Twin Lakes, Coulter. 



ATRIPLEX PATULA, L. Can >n City, Brandegee. Pueblo, 1873, Greene. 



CORISPERMUM HYSSOPIFOLIUM, L. Canon City, Brandegee. Near 

 Denver, Dr. Smith. Colorado Springs, Porter. 



OBIONE 2 CAXESCENS,Moq. DC.Pro<?.,13,2dpt, p. 112. Shrubby, l-5 

 high, hoary-caneseent and pulverulent, unarmed, branches usually erect 

 and virgate ; leaves sessile, oblong or linear-oblong, narrowed at base, 

 obtuse or acutish, occasionally emarginate, entire, l'-2J' long and 2 // -4 // 

 wide, (sometimes vsmaller and ovate or obovate;) flowers dioecious, the 

 staminate in dense clusters at the extremities of the brauchleis, the pis- 

 tillate clusters less crowded, axillary; fruit 2 // -3 // long, hoary-pubescent, 

 sessile or short-pedicelled, wingless or broadly winged by the more or 

 less dilated* margins' of the variously toothed bracts. Hall & Harbour, 

 308. Caiion City, Brandegee. Denver and Colorado Springs, Porter. 



OBIONE AKGEXTEA, Moq. DC. Prod., 13, 2d pt., p. 115. Annual and 

 herbaceous, G'-lo' high, branching from the base, the branches ascending, 

 densely mealy-canescent, especially when young; leaves rather thick 

 and fleshy, i'-2' long, usually hastate or deltoid, sometimes rhomboidal 

 or ovoid, attenuate into the short petiole, obtuse or acutish, entire or 

 rarely sinuate-toothed; flowers monoecious, in sessile axillary clusters 

 upon the leafy branches; staminate clusters small; bracts somewhat 

 orbicular, united at base, dilated and herbaceous above in fruit, becom- 

 ing often 2"-3" in diameter, the margin deeply and acutely toothed and 

 undulate, the sides strongly reticulated, and frequently more or less 

 crested. Hall d' Harbour, 484. Canon City, Brandegee. Median. 



1 MOXOLEPIS, Schrad. Flowers polygamous, braetless; calyx of a single scale-like 

 sepal, persistent, without appendages. Stamen 1, inserted on the receptacle. Disk 

 and staminodia none. Styles 2, filiform, somewhat united at base, stigmatic on the 

 inner surface. Utricle strongly compressed, naked, rather thick, subadherent to the 

 vertical flattened seed. Testa crnstaceous, fragile. Embryo annular, surrounding the 

 copious farinaceous albumen; radicle inferior. Annual herbs, with alternate petioled 

 leaves and clustered axillary flowers. Moquin in DC. Prod. 



2 OBIOXE, Giertn. Pistillate flowers all without calyx and 2-bracted, the bracts 

 more or less completely united and becoming hardened or corky; radicle superior; 

 otherwise as in Atriplex. Monoecious or dioecious herbs or undershrubs, with mostly 

 alternate entire or sinuate-dentate leaves. Moquin in DC. Prod. 



