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38 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA, L.—Very common along the foot-hills and 
among the mountains. Ha u& Harbour, 155, Near Denver, B. H. 
Smith; Meehan. sade Park and Seas Madre Range, Coulter. 
ENTILLA ANSERINA, L.—Common everywhere on the plains and 
in the Fsisiy nao ce. Dr. Smith Colorado Springs, Porter. Canon 
City, Brandegee. South Park, Coulte 
a. BLANDA, Ait.—Common foil ab along hangs in the foot- 
hills. ne Smith ; “stein Porter ; Brandegee ; Cou 
KANSANA, Porter (2. +.) Stem stout, ere oval leafy, 1° high, 
glabrous re laucous, Tee with weak, decidu 1ous, bristly prickles ; 
le 9-11, ovate and ovate, 1’/or morein length te or obtuse, 
glabrous, sharply serrate; midrib and long stipules somewhat prickly 
aud minutely glandular; flowers numerous, terminal, corymbed, on 
peduneles about 1’ long: fruit globose, smooth, glaucou 8; calyx- seg: 
ments — — in ’ fruit, with terminal and sometimes lateral 
appen r less glandular and tomentose pubescent on the 
margins; petals broadly obeordate or emarginate, longer than the calyx- 
seginents, rose-color; flowers 2/ in diameter _—This rose may possibly be 
an extreme . of R. gop ~~ it differs i in so many points that I have 
ventured to describe it as —Banks of the Arkansas near Caiion 
City, Brandegee. Raton opeiains, Dr. Bell. Texas, Wright. 
ae FRAXINIFOLIA, Bork. Resembles hk. blanda. Flowers. large, 
n diameter; fruit chi nl 6/ ~ - in diameter ; 2° to 3° es growing 
era on dr y ridges.—In the mountains, Hon. ‘John Sco 
Pyrvus SAMBUCIFOLIA, eae * Schlecht. — Meehan. 
AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS, T. & G., var. , Sel T. & G, 
Mountain of the Holy Cross, Coulter. 2 p10 % 
SAXIFRAGACE X. 
SAXIFRAGA CESPITOSA, L. Perennial, dwarf, ceespitose ; stems, 1/2’ 
high ; (eee glandular- pared sr, 3-5-cl eft, upper linear and en bine 
segments broadly-linear and obtuse ; flowering stems with a few seat- 
tered leaves, glandular, 1-4. flowered; petals white, chive 35-nerved, 
scarcely longer or twice the length of "the calyx. Alpine.—Hall & Har- 
our ; e. 
SAXIFRAGA oh args L. “Rocky Mountains of Colorado,” Watson 
-in King’s Rep., vol. 5, p. 93. 
SAXIFRAGA penta. L. (S. controversa, Sternb.) Annual, glan- 
dular-pubescent; stems 1/-3-high; erect, leafy; leaves cuneate-ovate 2, 
3-5 toothed. at the ape 7 tenet earlier spatulate and entire, radical ones 
ater branchlets 3- dom red; flowers pinks h or yellowish-white; 
x-lobes ov ate, ap ta cue than the petals ; pedicels bibracteate, 
oer equaling the fruit.—* Alpine region,” Hall & Harbour, 196, 
AXIFRAGA CERNUA, L. Annual, glabrate or glandular-pubescent ; 
stems granulate at base, leafy, weak, simple or Seon 2/5’ high, 
lower leaves reniform, broadly toothed or lobed, the upper ones bearing 
little bulbs in their axils; flowers often prey eediag Pi i pendulous ; 
py oblong or ovate, nearly distinct; petalsobovate- oblong os obovate 
retuse, white or cream- color, longer than the calyx; styles 
ud re : 
oe deformed, aL ieinp as Lincoln at 12,500 feet altitude, ( Coulter. 
pipes ae sei de Cristo Pass, Brandegee. 
DEBILIS, Eng. Glabrous or very sparingly gl nd ule r 
_ pubescent eee weak, ascending, 2-4-flowered, 2/-4’ high; 
