SYNOPSIS OF THE .FLORA OF COLORADO. 5 
DELPHINIUM SCOPULORUM, Gr. Pl. Wright. 2, p.9. Puberulent or 
glabrous; stem leafy, simple, 1°-2° high; petioles dilated at base; 
leaves orbicular in outline, 3—5 parted, divisions deeply 2- 3-cleft, seg. 
ments many-lobed or laciniate ; raceme strict; many-flowered ; flowers 
smoothish ; apr longer than the sepals ; lower petals bifid, sparingly 
bearded within; claw spurred at base; carpels 3, She nearly glabrous. 
—Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Ha u & Harbour, 26, 
VAR? Stems 2°-5° high, stout, panicled; racemes ilewite: elongated; 
flowers joeoocc re small; spur Seraighic ascending. —Ute Pass, Porter. 
Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. 
uceuaecel AZUREUM, Michx.—Canon City, June 26, Brandegee. 
DELPHINIUM MeENziEstI, DC. More or less pubescent; ob atv? stout, 
19-2° high, leaves orbiemlar in ed 5-7 parted, divisions 2- 
cleft; bracts mostly entire, lower ones 3-cleft; ‘raceme iniple ie to 
many-flowered; spur aeely sh he "fone than the sepals, ascending; 
capsules glabrous; root grumous. Glos ely resembles the eastern D. tri- 
corne.—Hall & Harbour, 28. ik the foot. hills west of Denver, Coulter. 
ACONITUM NASUTUM, Fisch. Petals erect, with the spur arcuate; 
galeaconical, prone; pico descending; race me somewhat panicled; divis- 
ions of the leaves rather os, coarsely laciniate-toothed. Stem 
stout, 3°-6° high, pubescent a ; flowers purple or white —Hal 
pacheeed: 29; Parry. Weston’s Pash July 18, at 11,000 feet altitude, 
Coulter. 
ACTA SPICATA, L., var. ARGUTA, Torr. (A. arguta, Nutt. Fl. N. Am., 
p. 39.) Stouter than A. spicata, var. rubra of Gray’s Manual; leaflets 
larger and more serrated; petals o long, obtuse; otherwise near y the 
me.— Mountains near Deny ver, Dr. mena th. Oak Creek, = Papel 
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Brandegee. St. Vrain Caiion, Coulte 
ERBERIDACE X. 
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RIS --Pursh. Leaflets 1-6 pairs, not approxi- 
mated to the base of the petiole, coriaceous, ovate- = See or pated 
cal oblong, oblique and slightly cordate at base, margin repand wit 
high, branching, the branches often procumbent. Leaflets 14’-3’ long, 
obseurely Spec am on both sides, the veins all rising from the 
midrib.— Hall & Harbour, 30. Head-waters of the Arkansas, Porter. 
Near Long’s Peak, Coulter. 
NYMPH EACEX. 
“NUpPHAR POLYSEPALUM, Eng. Proce. Saint Louis Acad. pet 17, i. 
p. 282. Leaves broadly ovate, deeply c cordate, with a narrow sin 
sepals 9-12, concave, the middle: ones very large; petals i218, seatalite: 
retuse ; stamens very numerous; anthers trumeate, ay appendiculate at the 
N. advena ; sinus wer and more closed; flowers very large; 
outer sepals greenish and yellowish, inner ones more or less tinged with 
red.—Mountain- 0 Petal C in 
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