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12 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
FRANKENIFACE SX. 
FRANKENIA J AMESL, Torr. _Gr.in Proc. Am. Acad. v.8, p. 622. Much 
branched from a woody base, 6-10’; branchlets minutely pubescent; 
leaves opposite, linear, strongly revolute on the margins, somewhat 
mucronate, 6-8” long, with fasci shorter ones in their axils; 
flowers terminal, sessile; petals long-clawed, white, limb oblong-cuneate, 
erose-denticul: ate at the tip, 24-3” long, nearly twice the length of 
the calyx-tube; stamens 6, exserted; stigmas terminal; ovules 3, 
oblong-linear, pendulous from the apex of a very long subbasilar funicu- 
lus.—Cajion City, Brandegee. Near Pueblo, Redfield. 
CARYOPHYLLACE &. 
SAPONARIA VACCARIA, L. (Vaccaria vulgaris, Host.)—Hoopes ; Greene. 
Introduced. 
SILENE ACAULIS, L. Gray’s Manual, p. 90.—High alpine, growing in 
dense mats near the snow- line, at 10, 000 to 14 000 feet oe July, 
August. Hall Pinion gest 7 Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith. 
Pike’s Peak, Por Mount Lincoln, at a 000 Seng "ai odie: Coulter. 
Gray’s Pea k, 12 "000 to 13, 000 feet, Redfield 
SILENE Snow kale: Hook. Stem pupeb: racemes sub-compound, nar- 
row, few-flowered ; flowers erect or nodding, longer or shorter than the 
dicels; calyx oblong, clavate, somewhat dilating, teeth broad-lance- 
sh acntish, slightly ciliate ; petals white or pinkish, bifid, the lobes 
ong, emar einate, the appen nda ages obtuse; claws with acute auricles, 
woolly-ciliate as well as the filaments; capsule seed Rtihi oblong, three to 
four saa longer than the stipe. —Hall & Harbour, 61; Hoopes. In the 
eee ; : 
oa} tien Hook. Minutely glandular-pubescent; stems 
Siusetons: dichotomously branched, ni 12’ high, weak, ascending, leafy 
o the summit; leaves crowded, ovate- lanceolate or oblong-ovate,. 
acuminate at both ends; peduncles axilar ry and terminal, 1-flowered ; 
petals white, bifid, 3” long, exceeding the obovate, deeply 5- toothed 
calyx; styles thickened above, han one bearded within.— Hall & 
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Lyc TALA, L. Pubescent; stems emis 3/-4/ high 
1 heh exe; eax ovoid, 10-striate, iueleding the petals; filaments a 
claws of the petals naked ; seeds la arge and margined. —Hall & Harbour, 
63. Mount Lincoln at 13, 000 feet altitude, July, Coulter. 
Lycunis DrumMonpDil, Watson. (Silene Drummondii, Hook. 5) 
Kings Rep., vol. 5, p. 37. Glandular-pubescent and v — stems 
several, 1°-3° high, erect, simple; leaves remote, linea aneeolate; 
raceme ‘loose, few- mnie oh with elongated pedicels, rates or oppo- 
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AL SY SEE PTE tpg Ma ANE eo Lae Er gad SE cae 9 Sean ire a ee Lei a lichen oie 
l. FRANKENIACER. ed sce 5, united in a furrowed tube, persistent, - 
equal ; petals alternate “sith the sepals; stamens h vaonreaul either equal in number” 
to the petals a and alternate with them, or having a ‘tendency to double the pulnness - 
undershrubs. Stems very much branched. Leave ad asa exstipu- i 
late, with a membranaceous sheathing often. aut ps at the edges. Flow 
sessile in the divisions of the branches, and termi inal, embosomed in vase es, usually 
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