SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 41 
6'-2° high; leaves roundish-cordate, erenately 5-7 lobed, at length 
glabrous, ciliate, the lobes short and rounded with 1 or 2 crenatures 
minutely mu cronate; panicle racemose, soi loose; bracts mall, 
laciniate, ciliate; flowers small; calyx adherent to the ovary, Soils 
at base, limb tlat, dilated ; petals salute, flees ous; stamens shorter 
than the lobes of ‘the calyx; styles very sho ort, conical; seeds muricate 
or hispid under a lens.—Common in the mountains. Hall & Harbour, 
204; Parry, 174; B. H. Smith. Chiann Caiion, Porter. Brandegee. South 
Park, ses eee 
RA pie Il, seit Minutely glandular-puberulent; scape 4/-8/ 
high, oak ts with 1-3 mi inute, ’ subulate bracts; thyrsus raceme-like, 
rather Peo 12-30 flow nets bract ts scarcely longer than the pedivels ; 
flowers white or pinkish, 3” long ; calyx broadly- “campanulate, 5 5-lobed, 
lobes broad-oyate ; petals narrowly spatulate , obtuse, exsert; stamens 
and styles included. Leaves as in acto considerably variable. 
—Hall & 
Harbour, rocks, on mountains of medium elevation. u the 
Upper Ta Por ter. Grand Cafion of sie Arkansas, Brandegee. 
ARN: A PARVIFLORA, DC.— Hall & Harbour, 578. Wet Mountain 
Valley, Br nae 
PARNASSIA ‘FIMBRIATA, Banks. Scape 6-18’ high; flowers 1’ in 
diameter; radical leaves on very long petioles, biauriculate-reniform ; 
cauline one very small, cordate, Sessile, above the middle of the’slender 
scape; petals fimbriate at the base, somewhat unguiculate, longer — 
the calyx; sterile filaments 5-9 in each set, or uced to a crenat 
toothed, broadly- -cuneate, fleshy, carinate scale.—Hall & arbour, 575. 
In da eg places in the Sierra “Madre Range at 10-12,000 feet altitude, 
Coulte 
oe, ees AMERICANA, T. & G. Cymes often longer than the leaves, 
5-10-flowered ; petals white, chee long, glabrous or slightly hairy with- 
in; ealyx-lobes shorter than the petals, enlarged and foliaceous in fruit. 
—Hall U& Harbour, 568 ; ; Parry. Georgetown, Dr. Smith; Canby. Chiann 
Cation and Glen Eyrie, Porter. James’s Peak and Clear Creek Canon, 
Coulter ; Redfie ei 
MICROPHYLLUS, Gr. Pl. Fendl., p.54. Branches slen- 
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leaves and the oblong stigmas. irs on the under side of the 
leaves are appressed and covered with tobardlea under the microscope, 
- hort, t rbinate, adnate to the base the 
ee actos Pet: ‘ vate, convolute. Stamens 
rary ¢ ; 
Keolled, with 3-5 parie -ovuled placent : styles 3-5, equaling the stamens. 
le ce some sly 3 5-celled, a atone Pt sole the persistent, weap! as 
a , shining, striate-reticulate, the embryo in the axis_ 
» diffuse anching shrub, 2° pposite, 
mqunibiy: serrate, canescent beneath, as well as on the petioles, 
i oft, hairy pubescence ; flowers cymose, in terminal 
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