ae mek twisted, turns often 3-4; style leng, $/-2"—Easily 
SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO, { 
raceme densely many-flowered; flowers golden yellow; silicle mem- 
a very smooth, equaling or a little e longer than the style 
— City, August 13, 1872, in fruit, Brandegee. Bluffs at Pueblo, 
V Factiidied LuDOVICIANA, DC. Canescent with a stellate pubescence; 
stem 6-8’ high, simple or somewhat branched above; radical leaves 
spatulate, entire, obtuse, cauline linear; flowers golden yellow; petals 
~obovate; style slender, longer than the ovary and nearly as long as the 
crt globose, hairy silicle—Platte River near Denver, Dr. Smith ; 
VESICARIA oe sos Proe. Acad. Phil., March, 1863, p. 58. 
Riis « canescent; stems spreading ys a perennial roct, ‘leafy ; ; leaves 
spatulate; the is he naotede: petioled, sometimes 1-2 toothed; fruit- 
ing raceme elongated, silicle oval or ellipsoidal, whitish- pubescent, 
a little longer than the ’slender style, a little shorter than the upwardly 
piles bbc: pedicel.— Well marked by the oval or oblong silicle, 
me imens 3” Jong but scarcely pag dens oxiagnerl hoary with a 
is sielate: pubescence; seeds 4 or 6 i it? cell, ingles; petals 
spatulate, light yellow; filaments filiform. Hal u& Werkoue. 2 49; B. 
Smith ; manger Porter. Fou ig the mountains at middle elevations, 
Puy ‘ pripyMOcARPA, Gr. ( Vesicaria, Hook.) Canescent with a 
deeitate pubescence ; radical ti es broadly obovate-spatulate, occasion- 
ally lyrate, cauline spatulate-lanceolate, mostly entire; siliques large, 
globose-didymous, deeply emarginate above and below.—A low, de- 
cumbent, profusely branched perennial, Flower showy; petals oblong- 
spatulate, exceeding the oblong sepals; silicles varying in size, the lobes 
usually approximate, sometimes considerably divergent; septum lance- 
olate.—Hall & Harbour, 47; Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith. Long’s Peak, 
May 27, Coulter. . 
DRABA IL. Rather rigid; seapes naked, mostly some- 
what spp mosog pisces spatulate- lanceolate, plane, whore or less pilose 
with branching hairs; petals yellow, more than twice the length os ec 
calyx; silicles somewhat porated, oblong-elliptical; style very 
Dwarf, 1’-4' high; alpine and subalpine, very varia able._—Mount Tice 
at 13, 000 feet altitude, J uly, in flower, Coulter. Gray’s Peak at 12 000 
_feet, Redf eld. 
aeen Me hl. More or less pubescent; stem erect, leafy; 
leaves lanceolat ovate-lanceolate, entire or toothed; eorymbs ter- 
minal and Seiliawys silicles oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, exceeding the 
pedicels; petals ye aes w, emarginate; style ge short. Variable. In 
the mountains from 7-14,000 feet altitude. Hall & Soaant 44; 
Smith; Meehan ; Brandegee ; Coulter. Gray’s Peak, Redfield. 
DRABA 8 iy le get i Gr. Sill. Jour. 1862, vol. 33, p. 13. * span 
high; radical leaves rosulate, spatualate- lanceolate, acutish, attenuated 
into a large. hatined peeve #—14' long, eauline about 3, oblong or ob- 
long-lanceolate, very entire, heme hairs simple or simply forked, long, 
as id, 8 shaggy, sp reading; racemes often paniculate, many-flowered ; ‘pe. 
! anarg twiee longer than the calyx, mostly ret med bel — 
gin nate; style a iittic shorter than the ovary; stigma ema 
itate; fructiterous pedicels 3” long, more or less spreading ticles 3" 
long, or oblong-ovate, minutely or strongly Sepia. viiiate. usually 
distinguis ished. 
: a, Nutt— -Characters as in Vesicaria except that the silicle sg ee, c 
memb: 8, and the ¢ cotyledons contrary to the narro 
