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about 6” long including the spur; sepals oblong- ‘ovate ; petals a little — 
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Rep., vol. 5, p. 11. Tall, 50 high, glabrous or dense 
4 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
ceeding 1’ in diameter; page flabelliform, twice exceeding the sub-villous q 
oval sepals ; basilar scale mall, adnate ; achenia crowded in an oval — 
head, smooth, turgid ; hoak rather long, ensiform, ‘scarious-winged on — 
each side.—In the high alpine region, close to the snow, Hall & Harbour, ; 
17 ; Parry. Chicago Lakes at 12,000 feet altitude, June, Coulter. Gray’s 
Peak, 13,000 feet, “Redfie eld. : 
RANUNCULUS REPENS, L.—Meehan ; Greene; Porter. 
RANUNCULUS PENNSYLVANICUS, L.—Platte River near Denver, Dr. 
Smith. Wet Mountain Valley, Redfield. 
CALTHA LEPTOSEPALA, DC. Stem 1-leaved or naked, mostly 1- 
flowered, erect, 3/-1° high; radical saat on long petioles, ovate-cor- 
aaa obscurely crenate; ‘sepals 8-10, oblong, white or tinged with blue; 
style short and recurved ; stigma obtuse ; carpels 8-10, ‘oblong. —Very — 
abundant in subalpine swamps. An excellent pot- herb. Hall & Har- 
bour, 21; Parry; Meehan ; Brandegee; Coulter. May to September. 
Tro LLIUS LAXUS, Salisb.—Associated with the preceding, but less — 
common.—Hall & Harbour, 22; Brandegee; Coulter. Gray’s Peak, 
Redfield. June and July. a 
AQUILEGIA VULGARIS, L., var. BREVISTYLA Gr. (A. brevistyla, Hook.) — 
Stems low, 6/-8' high, spreading ; leaves: bi-ternate; leaflets 310 bed, 
crenate, 6/9! long, crenatures ovate, rotund; flowers small, blue, 4 
Ce the stamens; spurs hooked at the tip; styles shor ter, pai : 
& Harbour, 23. Mountains near Pike’s Peak, Canby; Meehan. — 
UILEGIA CANADEN SIS, L. Styles longer than the stamens, _aMlene 4 
siabako nie rivulets. Manne Elbert near Twin Lakes, Porter. La Plata — 
Mountain at 11,000 feet altitude, July, Coulter. 4q 
AQUILEGIA C#RULEA, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 2, p.164. Spur straight, — 
very. slender, 14/-2'; sepals rhomboid-ovate, acute, longer than the — 
petals ; stamens a style — than the coralla; ‘stem 19-30 high; © 
glabrous, few-flowered ; flow 2/-2)/ in diamete er, pale blue, some- 4 
times Spuiolbncan: pinkish of white, leaves mostly radical, ere 
beneath ; leaflets deeply cleft.—On shaded mountain- slopes from 7-11 ~ 
feet altitude. A very beaytiful and showy plant in flower. Jun 
to September. Ze aeons 24; Parry; Dr. Smith; Porter ; Oouttel 
Gray’s Peak, Redfield 
AQUILEGIA CHRYSANTHA, Gr. Proc. Am. Acad. 8, p. 621, (A. leptocera. 
Nutt., var. flava. Gr. Pl. Wright. 2, p. 9.) Sm — "than a See and 
more ‘slender i in stems and foliage; peduncles often pubescent; flo 
deep yellow, spurs more slender; sepals about 9” lon g, lanceolate-obloug, 
laige: but not broader than the limb of the petals. Grand Caiion of 
the Arkansas, June 3, , Brande « 
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leaves deeply 3-5 sip: sinnien ea cuneate, ane i 3-lobed 
abru 
Pisahded, pi claw spurred at Sein ba Co Bang specimens fromm 
the ti Lakes the spur is shorter than the sepals and the lower tals 
acute; stems very stout; flowers large, in crowded 
Hall & ‘¢ Tarkan, 25; Coulter. 
