112 : BOTANY. 
(399). Leaves oblong to subcordate, obtuse, crenately serrate, covered with 
a white tomentum beneath, and very veiny. 
FatiuGia* parapoxa, Endl—Shrubs 2—5° high, with young branches 
white; leaves 4-14’ long; leafless branches terminated by the whitish 
flower, which is an inch or more in diameter, or later by the dense head of 
earpels with thin, woolly styles. Calyx-lobes acute and usually reflexed 
after the petals fall—Santa Fé 58), and Arizona, Loew. 
GeuM MAcROPHYLLUM, Willd—Colorado (380); Utah; Loew, in Ari- 
zona. 
GruM TRIFLORUM, Pursh.—Colorado (394). 
Geum rRiIvaLE, L.—Colorado (381). 
Geum Rossn, Seringe-—Colorado, alpine, reaching as high as 13,500 
feet (3885, 387); Utah. , 
Fracaria Vireintans, Duchesne.—Colorado (402). Var. glauca, 
Watson. 
PoTENTILLA GLANDULOSA, Lindl., var. Nevadensis, 8S Watson.—(379.) 
Collected in Colorado in 1873. Itisatrue P. glandulosa, Lindl., and hence 
the same as P. fissa, Nutt., differing from the above only in having more 
flowers in its less compact cyme. The Survey has it also from Utah. 
PorenTILLA RIvALIs, Nutt.—South Park (373). 
PoTenTILLA Prennsytyanica, L.—South Park and Twin Lakes, Colo- 
rado (374, 375); Utah. 
Porentitia Hipprana, Lehm.—White tomentose throughout, 1° high; 
leaflets 7-11, decreasing regularly in size from the terminal one down, 4-1’ 
long, deeply and sharply serrate; 1—2 smaller leaves on the stem; bract- 
lets a little shorter and petals a little longer than the sepals. Flowers 
yellow; styles terminal, filiform; carpels glabrous—Colorado (367, 209) 
and Arizona (220). 3 
*FaLLuGia, Endl.—Tube of the persistent calyx obconic-hemispherical. At the apex 5-bracteo- 
late; lobes 5, ovate ; apex 3-dentate, or 3-cusp'date, imbricated. Petals 5, large, obovate-rotund. Stamens 
many, inserted in a dense 3-fold series ; filaments filiform, united into a ring at the base; anthers small. 
Torus sulcate, villous, many carpels on the small conical receptacle; style terminal, villous; stigmas 
small, asingle ascending ovule in the base of the cell, the many villose achenia terminated by very 
long, plumose styles. Seed erect; testa membranaceous; cotyledons linear-oblong; radicle inferior.—An 
erect, much branched shrub, with virgate branchlets. Leaves alternate, petioled, irregularly 3-5-cleft or 
_ pinnatifid. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers solitary on the apex of the branches, or sub-panicu- 
late on elongated, leafless branches, bractless, rather large.—BrENTHAM & HOOKER. 
