\ 
eae ae i in Lakes, Coulter. : 
ee the outer smaller with greenish, appressed or sligh ilpape reed 
56 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
herbaceous, ovate, with long subulate spreading tips, inner ones ellipti- a 
eal, acute or acutish, with scarious margins; achenia sparsely hairy 
above or glabrous; pappus pital eliamgad u & Harbour, 313; Parry, ; 
423; Brandegee; Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith; Porter. Sierra Madre Range; 7 
Twin Lakes, Coulter. Throug ghout the ere tts at all elevations. 
NARDOSMIA SAGITTATA, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.1, p.307. Leaves oblong, 
acute (or obtuse,) entire, ‘sagittate, the lobes pe DC, , (leaves cor- 
date or reniform-sinuate, pote, ation, tomentose beneath). —‘‘Near t 
Pike’s Peak,” Hall & Harbour, 314. 4 
ASTER ADSCENDENS, Lindl T. & G., Fl. N. Am., 2, BD. ids Stems 3 
ow, ascending; branches simply racemose or a eaehak ymbose ; 
radical and lower leaves oblong-linear or narrowly spatula ee Bh abrous, 
entire, with ciliate-scabrous margins, the cauline linear-lanceolate, 
partly clasping; scales of the hemispherical involucre numerous, closely 
imbricated, unequal, nearly glabrous, the exterior linear-oblong, obtuse, 
the innermost acute ; achenia minutely hairy.—Meehan. Cation ity, 
. s 
IFOLIUS, T. & G. Low; stem not denuded and scapiform, 
pubescent abe OVE; leay es more pr oportionate, arate = en scales 
of the involucre somewhat acute.—Hall & Harbour, 2 : Par) rry, 419. 
Var. FREMoNTH, T. & G., Fl. N. Am., 2, p. 503. stem leafy, 4/-6' 
high, simple, bearing 1-2 heads, sometimes more, more or less woolly 
pubescent ; leaves thin, cauline ones oblanceolate; Seale of the involucre 
loose, exterior herbaceous, inner ones narrowly. linear, acute; pappus 
white—‘Alpine and subalpine, in low grounds.” Gray’s Peal, Dre 
Smith. Sierra Madre ee Coulter. 
Var. PAR Watson. Stem 1°-2° high, often corgmbosely ye 
bran ches eaves “wl biadly robladiebetate: 5/-12/ Jong, 1/2’ wide, nai 
owed into winged petioles, the upper ones ’ eradually hie and ie 
sile, partly rin ae heads large; involueral scales finely ciliate, er 
loose ; Sear aes not glandular. —Sierra Madre Range, Coulter 
ata Lavis, L.—Cafion City, Brandegee. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. 
oopes. ; 
ult RICOWES, L., var. STRICTUS, Porter. Low, g0_10 high, gl 
brous, except the scabr rous margins and ciliate bases of the leaves, eree 
slen es ‘paniculatels branched above, branches short; scales of the iI 
volucre narrowly linear, lax, outer ones wees acute, often entirely green, — 
inner ee scarious with a central green line; radical leaves narrowly g 
oblanceolate—“In the mountains at middle elevations,” Hall & Har- 
our, 254. Near Denver, Coulter. Foot-hills west of Denver, Porter ; 
ine Hoopes. 
STER a Nicci. "oe ar aa Denver, Dr. Smith. North Park, 
Mayen; oe ulter ale, 
arenes ones pilgng:lintar, ae ssile, ita slightly eacping ihons of he) 
erect branches linear, ote slightly faleate; heads terminal on the 
branchlets, flattened hemispherical, 4-8” in diameter; sie much im- 
