SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 133 



SPIRANTHES BOMANZOFFIANA, Cham. Hall & Harbour, 539; Canby ; 

 Hoopes. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Meehan. Horse Shoe Moun- 

 tain, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 



LISTERA CORD AT A, E. Br. West of Denver, Greene. 



CALYPSO BOREALTS, Salisb. Hall & Harbour, 537. South Park ; Wet 

 Mountain Valley, Brandegee. 



CORALLORHIZA MULTIFLORA, Nutt. Green Horn Mountains, Greene 



CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLOBUM, Salisb. Wet Mountain Valley, Bran- 

 degee. 



CYPRIPEDITJM PUBESCENS, Willd. Foot-hills near the Platte, west 

 of Denver, Coulter. 



HYPOXYS JUNCEA, Smith. Sparingly hairy; leaves filiform; scapes 

 1-3, filiform, 1-2 flowered; bracts bristle-like, shorter than the villous 

 pedicels, divisions of the perianth oblong, the three exterior ones green- 

 ish and hairy without; partitions of the capsule vanishing at maturity; 

 seeds black, minutely pitted. Scape 4'-9' long, at length procumbent. 

 Flowers 9 // -12 // wide. Grape Creek, Brandegee. 



IRIDAf E,E. 



IRIS TENAX, Dougl. ? Dr. Smith; Brandegee; Hall & Harbour, 542. 

 SISYRINCHIUM BERMUDIANA, L. Colorado Springs, Porter. Bear 

 Creek, Coulter. 



SMII.ACE JE. 



SMIL AX ROTUNDIFOLIA, L. Colorado Springs, Porter. 



ZYGADENUS GKLAUCUS, Kutt. Hall & Harbour, 550; Canby ; Porter. 

 Mount La Plata, at 11,000 feet altitude, and Mount Lincoln, at 13,000 

 feet, Coulter. 



ZYGADENUS ^UTTALLII, Gr. (Amianthium Xuttallii, Gray. Var. a. 

 Ann.y. Y. Lye., 4, p. 123.) Bulb tunica ted; stem 8 / -20 / high, slender, with 

 several elongated narrowly-linear bracteiform leaves, which are semi- 

 amplexicaul or the lower slightly sheathing; lower leaves 2 // -4 // wide, 

 folded-carinate, usually shorter than the stem, rough on the margin ; 

 raceme simple, usually very short, l'-3' long, rarely 10'; flowers 

 crowded, bracteate, on slender, elongated pedicels ; lower bracts usually 

 foliaceous, the upper membranous; sepals lj^-3" long, ovate- ellipti- 

 cal, very obtuse, abruptly narrowed, and slightly glandular at base; 

 ovary-cells 12-14 ov tiled; capsule oblong-ovate, (V long; seeds 2J" long, 

 oblong. Hall & Harbour, 551. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Clear 

 Creek Canon, Coulter. 



STREPTOPUS AMPLEXIFOHUS, DC. Hall & Harbour, 543. Bear 

 Creek, Coulter. 



S3HLACINA RACEMOSA, Desf., var. AMPLEXICAULIS, Watson. King's 

 Rep., vol. 5, p. 345. (8. amplexicauUs, Nutt. Jour. Acad., Phil. 7, p. 58.) 

 Leaves closely sessile and amplexicaul, shortly acuminate or only acute; 

 style at least half as long as the ovary and equaling the stamens. Dis- 

 tinguished at once from the usual form by its less acuminate sessile 

 leaves and longer style and filaments. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. 

 Along the Platte, near Denver, Coulter. 



