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herbs, with alternate, linear, entire, 
jon h § Hook. 
Aq’ SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
GAYOPHYTtM! RAMOSISSIMUM, T. & G. Stems 6/-18/ high, becom 
ing 
very much branched; flowers very minute; calyx- lobes lanceolate. 
oblong, equaling the rose-colored petals and’ exceeding the longer 
stamens; flowers 4” long; capsules oblong, 3—-5-seeded, 2-3” long, rather 
shorter than the soy deflexed, pedicels —Hall & Harbour, 172. 
—— deans Coulter 
GAY YTUM RACE , cote GG. GH abrous or nearly so; stems 
‘18! hich, ber branches elongated, mostly simple; leaves ’inear- 
spatulate, short, 6’'-12” long; flowers axillary throughout the branches; 
segments of the calyx about the length of the petals ; longer. stamens 
ove-third shorter than the petals ; capsule linear, 8-10” long, tapering. 
at base into a bah short pedicel or sessile, iu Bom, dp —Hall & Har- 
bour, 171; Parry ; Brandegee; Canby. Gray’s Peak, Redfield. ; 
+s CENornmk.a fe Path L.—Along the Platte and in Ute sat Coulter ; 
orter. 
RA PINNATIFIDA, Nutt. Annual, decumbent, Sabese cent or 
pube eee: stem low, branches sometimes 1° 2° long ; leaves deeply pin- — 
h lit 
natifid, with linear and acute se gments, radical ones often nearly entire; 
owers axillary, large, 2/-3’ in diameter; segments of the calyx rather 
shorter than the tube and much shorter than the broadly obcordate 
petals; style filiform, shorter than the petals, but exceeding the stamens; 
stigmas filiform, divaricate, as long as oe slender anthers ; capsules 
prismatic- -eylindrieal, striate-grooved, somewhat tapering towards. the 
apex, about Ei long . seeds 1-rowed in eects cell, terete, ascending. —Hail 
& Harbour, 177; “Brandegee. Clear Creek, Coulter. On the Platte near 
Denver, Dr. Smith. Wet Mountain Valley, Redfield 
CENOTHERA CORONOPIFOLIA, JT. & G. Perennial, with borizenta ai 
root-stocks ; stems simple, often numerous —_ a branehin ng base, 
or ascending, slender, een puberulent, strigose or hispid ; basil i 
’ ¥-pinnat il throat of the 
 orbicu 
leaves linear-spatulate, .the rest Deen 
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the stamens, pe, than ‘he pis stil, an white, turni 
capsule ovate or linear-oblong, t torulose at base, sa s attenuated 
into a very short peduncle, sub-ereet; seeds large, ovate, gs some- 
what obtuse or obliquely truncate —Hail he! Harbo ake ag. Dr. Smith 5 2 
Bb. H. Smith ; Canby ; Brandegee. Plains around Den r and Colo 2 
Springs, dees Etersl ile Platte and gwen nt Par Coulter. 72x 
Perennial, nabenalenk or hirentas 
CENOTH Nutt 
stems usually 10-30. fick erect, or ascending, with a white, membran-— 
one shining bark; leaves very variable, linear or lanceolate, attenuate — 
at the base, entire or more or less dentate; petals round-ovate, more OT — 
sb ungnuiculate, entire, exceeding the stamens a and ae aling the pistil, — 
often nearly white; capsule thickened at.ba near, divaricate, — 
often plato or deflexed; seeds rather anit Tee cece smooth. — 
—Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith; Canby. Cation City, Brandegee. Plains neat 
Denver er Pleasant Park, Coulter. Colorado Sp: prings, Porter 
(ENOTHERA TRILOBA, Nutt. Biennial, acaulescent, nearly glabrous; ‘: 
''Gayopuytum, A. Juss. Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary, linens, wate ne 
terete; lobes 4, Sucondinn. Leer ; petals 4, obovate, 
stamens 8, or 4, alte . any staminodia 
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