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16 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
SIDALCEA CANDIDA, Gr. Pl. Fendl., p.24. Stems simple, 2°-3° high, 
from a perennial, creeping rhizoma, leaty, glabrous above, sparsely hairy — 
segm 0 
or parted, the floral ones 3-5, segments lanceolate, entire; stipules oval, 
ciliate ; raceme usually short, DOUTBCe. glandular, tomentose ; pedicels 
shorter than the bracts; lobes of the Lane ed calyx ovate; corolla 
white or cream-color; petals 8-12" long; anthers blue; earpels 9-10, 
smooth, cochleate- reniform ; minutely seine at the inner angl 
mucronate.—On water-courses. Rare. Hall & Har rbour, 85; Parry, — 
429; Meehan ; Preise Eagle River, Coulter. . 
MALVASTRUM CoccINEUM, Gr.—Common at low elevations, in dry soil. 
Halli & Harbour, 86; Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith ; Canby ; Porter ; Coulter. — 
area along the rt imi Colorado Sprin es, Redfield. ; 
SPHZRALCEA! AN IFOLIA, Spach. (8. stellata, T. & G. Fl. 'N. Am. | 
1 p. 228.) Densely "slothed with a grayish, stellate pubescence; stem — 
1930 high, branched; leaves oblong- lanceolate, acute, petioled, 2/3! 
long 4/9! wide, erosely- serrulate, rugose; py oles 4/— in length; — 
nreigeate axillary, shorter than the peti oles, 2-many-flowered; flowers — 
more or less aggr regated; — olla She 8 carpels 12-14, with two short, © 
slightly recurved po ints; 2 2, rarely 3- eede d; seeds reniform, glabrous; | 
stipules setaceous.—Caiion aon City, Demeee Common about Pueblo, 
reene. 4 
ABUTILON? PARVULUM, Gr. Pl. Wright, 1, p. 21. Cinereons-tomen- 
tose with a lax minute pubescence; stems slender, spreading, from a — 
perennial woody root, Laeonps ulate above ; branchlets pilose with padi’ ; 
i 1 ti bed, — 
y use, canesc are 
1-tlowered, longer than the leaf; flowers small, yellow; capsule ovoid, ° 
somewhat tomentose, 5-lobed at the apex, much longer than the short — 
calyx; carpels erect, 5, rather obtuse, awnless, 2-3-seeded.—Ledges of — 
rock near Caiion City, Greene. 3 
LINACE ©. 
LINUM PERENNE, L. Perennial, glabrous; stems 1°-3° high, branch- — 
ing inet. ; branches virgate; leaves alternate, scattered, linear, acute; 
flowers terminal and nea rly opposite the leaves, large; peduncles becom-— 
ing bi adiebae ge nd nodding in fruit; sepals oval, with membranous m 
gins, a little shorter than the globose capsule ; petals free, ee blue 
b-4 times the length of the calyx; styles 5, capsule 5 5- Agee tte! ed 
dissepim ents.—Not rare in the ‘mountains, bu ut mo eae fh hig 
slovations Hall & Harbour, 87; Dr. Smith. North Park, Hayden > 
Coulter Be 
LINUM R IDUM, Pursh. Stems 5/—15/ high, angled, much-branched; 
branches tring ascending; leaves alternate; linear, pungently-acute, 
rigid, with scabrous margins; flowers pariniba or corymbose; pedis 
1 SPHARALCEA, St: Hil. pre ee 2-3 leaved setaccous, often deciduous. 
capitate. Ovaries many, 15— Carpels 1-e il 
ing, the other pendulous, poi often trun and 
ceous or us, 2-valved a h y g from each o 
axis Radicle inferior, or in the or seed centripetal-superior. 
? ABUTILON, To 2» anvieas none. 
carpel, rarely 4-9, all or the aan spreading or resupinate-pendulous. Fru 
carpels. Carpels, 1-celled, about 2-valved, gy separating from the axis. 
ascending or centripetal. Leaves cordate. Gray, Gen. Ill., 2, p. 65. 
