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SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 13 
site; flowers 3-5; calyx oblong, eyli indrical, erect; petals white or 
purplish, the limb 2-lobed or emarginate, scarcely exceeding the calyx, 
minutely crowned and narrower than the obtusely, strongly auricled 
claw; seeds rm be. uniformly tuber nanabed under the microscope, 
orig “nage —In the mountains at middle elevations. Hall & Ha rbour, 
; Dr. Smith ; Cons y; Brandegee. South Park, Coulter. 
ORRASTIUM. VULGATUM, L., var. BEHRINGIANUM, Gr. Flowers large, 
petals and capsules half longer than the calyx, s pkietar than the pedicels ; 
Bae. ee y, 2-4 flowered. —Hall & Harbour ; Brandegee. Mount Lincoln, 
Cor 
see M ARVENSE, L.—In the mountains, at all ibys er _ Hall & 
Harbour, 75; Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith ; Meehan ; Porter ; Cor 
STRLLARIA JAWHSTANA, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lye., v. 2, ee ie: Vise vag 
pubescent; leaves linear-lanceolate, 4’ long, acute; bine weak, 19-20 
high; leav es slightly falcate, closely sessile ; cyme divaricate ; few- 
flowered ; ; petals two-lobed, twice longer than the freecti acute sepals ; 4 
capsule as can as the calyx, deeply valved; seeds few, rugose.—Hall 
& Harbour, 78. 
STELL iauex LONGIPES, Goldi ag all i ihcrmnts apt Hall & Harbour, 
71 and 76; Canby ; Brandegee ; Coulte 
STELLARIA CRASSIFOLIA, Ehrh. Hall & Havbout: 
STELLARIA BOREALIS, Big.—Alpineand subalpine. Hall & Harbour, 
72; Dr. Smith Mount t of the Holy Cross, at 13,000. feet altitude, 
August, Coulter. 
TELLARIA UMBELLATA, Turez. Glabrous, stem 6/-1° high, w 
leaves ovate to oblo nigh naga i peduncles axillary and je asitehen: 
divaricate, filiform and elongated, with scarious bracts ; petals wanting ; 
sepals short, 1” long, peta acute, nerveless or l-nerved, (rarely 3- 
nerved;) capsule deeply valved, twice longer than the calyx; seeds 
smooth.—Hall & Harbou win s, Coulter. 
ARENARIA CONGESTA, Nutt. Cespitose, glabrous; stem simple, 
6’-1° high ; leaves long; linear-subulate, pungent, over 2 oy by long: ; flowers 
in roundish, compact heads or fascicles, with crowded membranaceous 
bracts; sepals ovate, membranous, obscurely 3-nerved, about half the 
length’ = ee oblong petals; capsule coriaceous, equaling the calyx; 
seeds v mall, angular, smooth—White House Mountain, at 13,000 
feet atte, Coulter. North Park, Hayden. 
‘ARENARIA FENDLERI, Gr. Stems numerous, from a perennial cau- 
dex, 615) high, glabrous below, more, or ieas pandas, pa nt 
above, imbrieately many- ie ved at base; leaves long, 3’-5’, erect, seta- 
ceous, somewhat “fla ttened; serrulate- scabrous, cipal pedi on the 
margins, ‘Geos of the stem ’successively shorter ; cymes strict and few- 
fiowered ; pe cg) ae ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, acumi- 
nate, margin, 5-nerved, nearly equaling 
the Gioeate nts bath ane h are white and 4” ‘long; styles exserted ; 
i 
cap- 
sule about equaling the calyx, Regge seeds papillose-seabrous.— Hall 
& ; 
Harbour, 79; Parry; Ca — ; . Smith 3 B. H. Smith ; Meehan ; 
Brandegee ; Porter ; Coulter. 
UBCONGESTA, W. ees Low, 3/~6’ high, — except the 
Var. 
minutely puberulent short pedicels, few flowered petals but little ex- 
ceeding the ovate, acuminate, scarious 8; leaves short—Hills_ 
around Cafion City, 
Var. SA. Branches of the cyme renee, lax and 1 way ly 
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