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SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 45 
leaves Euncinate, d Yiinaaeaae petioles, segments linear TRUORDI SER, often 
toothed; flowers large, e; in diameter. yellowish becoming 
rose-color ; caly3 x-tube og tte rae filifor m, dilated above; pais pa ov al 
or ob ovate, 1’ in length, persistent and crowding at the base, cartilagi 
nous or somewhat woody, reticulated, 4-w inged, apiculate or 4-toothed : at 
the apex ; nie horizontal, aaa densely tuberculate.—Hall & Har 
bour, 175. South Park, 
i saiep a CZESPITOSA, “Nu tt. Watson’s Rev. in Proe. Am Vv. 
pp. 585 and 605. Including Ci. montana o CH. marginate, Nuits cleo Ge 
eximia, Gr.) Acaulese nt, or with a short, sub-erect stem, 2/-6/ high, 
more or less villous-pubescent or niaely Girone: leaves Setioled, lan- 
ceolate, acute, variable in section, runcinate, lyrate, r ey: toothed or 
nearly entire; calyx-tube elon gated, 3-5 ‘long; petals large, 1/-2’ long 
obcordate, nearly white, becoming rose- ‘oolor’ ; capsules eavibe or upon 
short peduncle es, coriaceous, oblong, somewhat attenuate above, straight 
or curved, sub 4-angled, more or less ribbed, with the ridges tuberculate 
or smooth, dehiscence Joculicidal ; Unig oy rows in oe cell, fvie§ sik 
or 
A remarkably stout, panies “fore of this very variable species, 
collected by Mr. Bra ndegee near Canon pe corresponds very nearly 
to CH. eximia, Gray, Pl. Fendl., p. 45. The robust, ascendin nf stems are 
more than a span high and the capsules sessile, conical, eign ong, taper- 
ing upward from a broa ase, with 2 wing-crested ribs on each valve. 
(ENOTHERA MISSOURIENSIS, Sims. Stems low, simple, wicrsbnsclngse 
leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, tapering into a short petiole, ob- 
‘securely den nticulate, so what canescent when young; flowers se 
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very large, genes : tube of the calyx 4’-7’ in length, segments acu- 
minate, often éd with short y t 
the length of the sae flabelliform, mucronulate goes corolla 
4’-6’ in diameter; a very broad, light-yellow, with orange veins; 
capsule pediceled, very large, somewhat compresse ad 
wings, wf in length and about the same in breadth including the wings, 
Without the wings 3” in diameter; seeds large, the undulate crest con- 
spicuous.— Hall & Harbour, 174. 
NOTHER RTWEGII, Benth., var, LAVANDULZFOLIA,Gr. Snuffru- 
ticose, low, hoary-canescent; stems simple, decumbent, 6’ long ; leaves 
crowded, linear, or oblong-linear, entire, obtuse or acutish, somew what 
revolute; tube of the calyx 2/ long, tubular-infundibuliform, many times 
onger than the ovary and the ovate-lanceolate, slightly acuminate 
Segments; petals rhombic-ovate, crenulate, longer than the stamens; 
— discoid ; capsule sessile, cylindrical, canescent; seeds in a double 
series, horizontal,—Caiion City, Brande, it ce. Bluffs at Puebl lio, Greene. 
NOTHERA CANESCENS, Torr. & Frem. Frem. 2d. Exp., p.315. Gray 
in Pl. Fendl., p. 44. (CB. g guttulata, Hook} Stems ascending, 6'—8’ high, 
branching, ‘ ‘ve a leaty to the top; leav = Reape en Sais r 
6” long, oblon ng- lanceolate or Imear, ’ ed; 
calyx-tube slender, 9” lovg, ee ‘ttiee eos length of the 5 avtale 
canescent ovary; petals broadly obovate, entire, 3#/ long, white, with 
Some of each flower conspicuously dasitted or blotched with rose-purple ; 
anthers linear; divisions of the stigma linear, slender; capsule vlendet 
canescent, 3” 3” long and almost as broad, se ihe ‘apiculate, bei 
strongly carinate and almost Dai so intermediate ribs 
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