154 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



SprengJ Hall & Harbour, 688; Parry. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. 

 Sierra Madre Bauge, Gothic Mountain and Mountain of the Holy Gross, 

 Coulter. 



ASPLENIUM SEPTENTRIONALE, L. Fronds many from tufted root- 

 stocks, 3'-5' high, on very long stipes, erect; pinnae 2-4, narrow, linear, 

 erect, entire at base, with 2-several setaceous divisions at the summit 

 Hall & Harbour, 689. Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Brandegee: Red- 

 field. 



ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, L. Grand Canon of the Arkansas, 

 Brandegee. 



ASPLENIUM EBENEUM, Ait. Green Horn Mountains, E. L. Greene. 



ASPLENIUM FILIX-FCEMINA, Bernh. Hoopes. 



PHEGOPTERIS DRYOPTERIS, Fee. Hall & Harbour, 695. 



ASPIDIUM FILIX-MAS, Swartz: Hall & Harbour, 687. Grand Canon 

 of the Arkansas, Brandegee. Along the foot-hills west of Denver, Coul- 

 ter. 



CYSTOPTERIS FRACHLIS, Bernh. Hall & Harbour, 690; Canby. South 

 Park, Porter. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Bear Creek, near Den- 

 ver, Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 feet altitude, Twin Lakes and White House 

 Mountain, Coulter. 



WOODSIA SCOPULINA, Eaton. Boot-stock short, creeping ; stalks 2'-- 1' 

 high, chaffy at the base, stramineous, puberulent, like the rachis and under 

 surface of the frond, with minute flattened hairs and stalked glands; 

 fronds lanceolate, '-8' long, pinnate; piume numerous, S^-IO" long, 

 pinuatifid with 10-16 short ovate or oblong crenulate or toothed divis- 

 ions; indusium very delicate, deeply cleft into laciniae, which terminate 

 in short hairs composed of irregular cylindrical cells. Colorado, fide D. 

 C. Eaton. 



WOODSIA OREGANA, Eaton. Canby. Chiann Canon, South Park 

 and Upper Arkansas, Porter. MeeJian. Wet Mountain Valley, Bra nclegee. 

 Long's Peak and Twin Lakes, Coulter. Grand Canon of the Arkansas, 

 Red field. 



BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINICUM, Swartz. Grand Canon of the Arkansas, 

 Brandegee. 



L.YCOPODIACE 2E. 



LYCOPODIUM ANNOTINUM, L. White House Mountain, Coulter. 

 SELAGINELLA RUPESTRIS, Spring. Sierra Madre Bange, Coulter. 

 On rocks, in Glen Eyrie and South Park, Porter. 



MUSCI. 



BY LEO LESQUEREUX, ESQ. 



The mosses here enumerated and described were collected in Colorado 

 Territory, by Elihu Hall in 1865, Major Downie in 1868, Prof. Thos. 

 C. Porter, and by the assistants of Dr. F. V. Hayden and myself 

 in 1872 and 1873. A few mentioned in Hayden's Beport of 1872, from 

 the mountains north of Colorado, and in Watson Catalogue, from Utah 

 and the Uiutas, all species likely to be found in Colorado Territory, 

 are added. Considering that none of the botanists who have gathered 

 these materials made in their researches a specialty of this class of 

 plants, which mostly grow in deep and dark ravines of difficult 



