SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 21 
TRIPOLIUM NANUM, Torr. Glab brous, ceespitos se, d 1 thi ck, 
branching, 1/-2/ high; leaflets ovate-oblon: g, somewhat acuminate, den 
ticulate, strongly veined, on rather long petioles; stipules memb 
ceous, ovate, ye tine peduncles very short, radical; mare py et about 
3-flowered ; flow rs large, 2’ long, dark purple, scarcely unfolding ; calyx 
tubular- aiupanalatey elabrous, teeth nearly equal, triangular- subulate, 
shorter than the tube; vexillum broadly obovate, 3-times aa fone gth of 
the ealy bie ume 4-5 -seeded.— Alpine. Hall arbour ; Parry; 
Brandegee. Mount Lincoln at 14,000 feet ce Coulter 
See carrey Ti &G. Dei soly csbepitose : ‘caine short 
and thick, branching, 2/ 4 high; met peduncles, and calyx more or less 
canescently silky ; leaflets linear, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
entire ; pe membranaceous, ‘inset. subulate-acuminate; head 
globose, on a long radical peduncle, bracteate, 1/ in diameter ; ‘practs 
lanceolate, scarious—margined, unequal; teeth of the calyx setaceous, 
nearly equal, exceeding the tube and a little shorter than the corolla; 
corolla 4-6” long, sonbbeld unfolding; legume 3-4-seeded.—Alpine. 
Hall & Harbour, 97; Parry, Meehan. Sangre de Cristo Pass, Brande- 
gee. Mount Lineoln, Mount La Plata and Gavi Peak at ee ,000 feet 
Avent Coulter 
TRIFO rom PARRYI, Gr. a gee (N. 8S.) 33, p. 409. pe ae circu- 
lose, subeaulese cent; scape ‘ high, leaty at base; stipules ovate, 
ee iou ets oblong, re iy ,) Sharply dentate ; involucre se mete 
iy parted, pret shorter than the many-flowered head ; segments ovate, 
obtuse; calyx about thrice shorter than the persistent, rose-purple 
(6//-9/") —— teeth broadly-subulate, about equalin g the campanulate 
tube; flow s 20 or more in a head; legumes sessile, 3-4-seeded.—Al- 
pine. Hall ‘G Harbour, 98 ; Parry ; ” Meehan. pe on the higher 
5 sabe Coulter. Gray’s Peak at 11,000 feet, Redyield. 
TRIFOLIUM ae Willd. _ Nearly oct; glabrous ; — ir 
enchant from the base, 10/— 18/ high; leaflets linear-lanceolate, mucro- 
nate, spinuosely- sola ‘13! long’; stipules me mbvandeanans : long- 
ovate, aristate, the upper ones pectinately dentate with setaceous 
teeth; the lowermost narrower and nearly entire; involucre laciniately 
many-cleft, a little shorter than the rather loose subhemispherical heads; . 
eads l/ or more in diameter; flowers purple, tipped with white; teeth 
of the ealyx longer ash the tube and much shorter than the corolla, 
subulate from av ery broad base; legume stipitate, 5-6-seeded.—Fremont 
County, Brandegee. 
Hosa seme PuRSHIANA, Benth. Much-branched, 6’-2° high, annual, 
e or less hairy, sometimes softly villous ; leatlets 3, (rarely 4) 
ovate to lanceolate, rather a stipules min ute, lae ish; 
ne y 
corolla 3! long, scarce preteen the calyx, keel attenuated upw 
falcate ; petals rose-colored, the vexillum with deeper minute stripes ; 
legume 1’ or more long, straight, not attenuate above.—Hall & Har- 
a 
Pso A LANCEOLATA, Pursh. Nearly glabrous, with a few scat- _ 
tered aie an numerous dark-colored glands, erect, 1° high, much 
1 Hosa ACKIA, Dongl. Calyx tubular or somewhat ¢ ampanulate, 5-cleft or toothed: 
Vexillum as jong ce: the s redial ing wings, often distant from those of the other petals- 
Keel as long as the vexillum. Style subulate, usually sor su straight. Stigma 
capitate. L, Legume somewhat compressed, wingless.—Herbs or su 
American.) ‘Stipules very tains sometimes foliaceous.. Pedun axillary or 
bellately 1-3 many few ered; commonly with a 1-3-foliolate a pela the Pon nl 
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