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oe ee ee 
SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 2T 
ally prostrate or matted; peduncles seape-like, capitately few- eaygre 
or spicately 8-14 flowered ; calyx-teeth about half shorter than the 
eee tube; leaflets 5-10 pairs, ae 1 and obovate- elliptical 
rolla bright violet (or rarely 9 tke pod thick, coriaceous, obcom- 
peokcet, nearly straight, about 1 lor : plackitte, elliptic, Srcoiaicnniie 
ragulose. —Hall & Harbour, 127. Patguting River, Dr. Bell. Cation 
ee “2 ih 
8 SHORTIANUS, Nutt. Gr. Rev. l.ec., p. 210. Usually sub- 
Ecalaccont, 5 silky. canescent with a very closely appressed pubescence ; 
ote obovate or ovate, 7-10” long; peduncles scape-like few— 
many-flowered, commonly shorter than the leaves; calyx 6” long, eyl- 
mse he oi shorter than the ra = a violet or blue, rather large 
showy; pod 1’~2/ long, ova vate lanceolate, thick, coriar 
obeompressel, intruded Hens aires approachi ing the acai: not 
2-celled, transversely rugulose, pointed and strongly arcuate, thick, more 
Hal 
— 
= 
4 
+ 
r less pubescent.— dé Ha rbour, 126 (A. eyaneus, Gr.;) Brandegee. 
Clear Creek Caiion, oagt 
GALUS Rev. l. ¢., p.211. Stem short, prostrate, 
ASTRA PARRYI, Gr. »D 
villous with loose sprecdilig hairs; leatlets 7-15 pairs, obovate or 
oblong, 3-9” long; peduncles rather short ; flowers 6-10, loosely sub- 
capitate, 6-10” long, whitish or yellowish, ” the keel tinged with pur- 
ple; calyx-teeth half shorter than the cylindric tube; pod pubescent, 
oblong- lanceolate, 1’ longer or more, arched or at len; eth circinate, 0 
compressed, rugulose, both sutures suleately impressed, contiguous; 
—Hall & Harbour, — ra ee. Near Denver, Coulter. Specimens 
from Brandegee ha e the samara a from 98/-10' long, with 2-3 
pedicles from ‘the apie of the lea 
GALUS TRIFLORUS, Gr Zz. oh z ». 214. Annual, cinereous- 
piabencenh, very much branched from tec "hase, branches ascending, 
$2! high ; stipules acuminate, slightly adhering at base; leaflets. 
v-7 pairs, oblong or linear-oblong often truncate at the apex ihe re 
vg long; peduncles in fruit, exceeding the leaves; owers 3-15, 
ochroleucous, tinged with purple, small, about 3 ong; calyx-teeth 
subulate, e naling: the tube; pod sessile or on a short pedicel, mem- 
branons, inflated, oval, obtuse or acutish 7//-12” long, finely reticulated, 
pubescent, neither suture inflexed, dorsal sulens deep and narrow, 
many-seeded.—Caiion City, Brandegee 
ASTRAGALUS PicTuS, Gr. Rev. 563 c., p. 214. Root filiform; hoary 
With a loose silky apie stipules ee persistent, connate; ‘leaflets 
37 — narrowly linear or filiform, 6-18” long, most of them usually 
abortive; flowers few, ae small; ‘keel ih the inflexed apex some- 
What Seslacn: ale rose-color ed ; ‘pod 6-18” long, mottled with pur- 
ple blotches, ovoid, short stipitate, stipe equaling the calyx, scarcely 
pointed, pendent. 
» Ve, oh ath Lius, Gr. 1. ¢., p. 215. (A. filifolius, Gr.) Leaves usually 
imperfect ; leatlets. very few, mostly attenuated, 1/-14’ long, terminal 
one, or the filiform rachis prod 3 uced, Rapes legume 1/-13’—On 
the plains. Hall & Harbour, 138. Denver and Colorado Springs, Porter. 
GALUS FRIGIDUS, Gr. Fev. “ie p. 219: St sti ah 
b Ss 4 
airy; lea 
pairs, ovate-obl elli tic-oblong peduncles cles equaling: the 
aves; ealyx-te i iar fone Es: GVERs t each 
+ Ce sepsis T.& G. si Rev. l.¢., p. 219. (Phace 
