SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
RANUNCULACEZE. 
CLEMATIS DovuGLAsi, Hook. Stem simple, erect, 1°-2° high, 
1-flowered, sparingly hairy, woolly at the joints; leaves hairy, 2-3 pin- 
natifid; sepals thick, deep purple ‘within, paler externally, spreading at 
the apex, much longer than the stamens.—Common in the mountains at 
rie elevations—Hall & Harbour, 2; Dr. Smith; Meehan; Porter ; 
Coulte 
Sim ATIS Scorri, Porter (7. sp.) More or tt ee with soft, - 
5 aime hairs; bushy, branching from a suffrute t base, branches 
rect, 9’-18', not climbing; leaves opposite on rather "tehia petioles, pin- 
ae leaflets gee pairs, ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, petiolu- 
late, 'strongly veined beneath, lower ones often 2-3 cleft; flowers axillary 
and terminal, nodding, pedune cles 3/6’; sepals 4, ovate, with reflexed 
pent nearly 1’ long, dark or brownish purple, thickish but not 
leathery as in CO. Viorna, more or less tomentose on the outside; carpels 
silky pubescent, with densely ea tails 1/-14/ in length. —Nam ed for 
Hon. John Scott, who collected it in 1872, at Seda Springs, 35 miles , 
eld 
west of Canton City. Brandegee, Fremont County, in fruit. 
CLEMATIS LIGUSTICIFOLIA, Nutt. Climbing, somewhat pubescent, 
flowers white, in paniculate corymbs, dicecious; leaves pinnate and ter- 
nate, (mostly 5-foliolate,) the coriaceous leaflets oblong, acute, mostl 
somewhat lanceolate-cuneate, incisely toothed and trifid; petals and 
stamens equal in length; carpels with long plumo ails—Common long 
water-courses, at the f foot-hills, and ascen 
Ing vines, 
climbing over bushes and producing a great abundance of white flowers 
—Hall & Harbour, 3; Dr. Smith; Porter ; Redfield. 
protien supra, 1 Mill., var. OcHorEnsts, Gr.. DC. Prod.,1, p. 10. 
Leaves biternately divided, segments ovate or oblong lanceolate, acu- 
minate, frequently three- lobed, irregularly toothed ; sepals 4, lance-ovate 
. purplish blue; antheriferous petals linear.—A tra ilin g, woody- stemmed 
‘plant, 6’ high, nearly cei rye glabrous; t tails 14’ long, very 
finely plumose.—Georgetown, Dr. Smi ” seapena Caiion, Porter. Clear 
Creek Cafion, at 9,000 feet al altitude, Cou 
THALICTRUM ALPINUM, L. Besin faci. 2/-8/ high, slightly pubes- 
cent, scapiform; leaves mostly radical, 2-3 ternate; leaflets roundish, 
about 4 long, somewhat lobed, crenately toothed; flowers pote nod- 
ding in a simple mosgigae pedicels slender; sepals 4, oblong; stigmas 
thick and pubescent; carpels ovate, sessile.—In damp , Mossy ground, 
at 9 to 10,000 feet nitivude, rare. Hall & Harbour, 10. cae Creek, near 
Gianite te, Porter. 
THALICTRUM PURPURASCENS, L. Anthers rather shorter than in 
eastern specimens.—Cafion City and Wet Mountain ane Brandegee. 
Foothills ood the Platte River, June 28, Coulter. In flower. : 
SPARSIFLORUM, Turez. (T. t taieee Hook., not of 
pe) teas "heh; wanile lose few lowered ong-pediceled, flowers 
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