66 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
APLOPAPPUS MACRONEMA, Gr., Proc. Am. Acad., v.6, p.542.  (Maero- 
nema discoidea, Nutt.) Brancheserectfroma uwoody base, 6/-9’ high, teretty 
white-tomentose ; leaves spatulate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 8//12long, gy 
2/3” wide, obscurely 3-nerved, minutely ¢ glandular and scabrous; heads 
single or r few i in acorymb, t irbinate; scales of the involucre few, snb- -equal 
broadly lanceolate, gland, ee outer ones more or less her baceous; 
heads about 25-flowered; ra ; branches of the are very long, 
filiform, much exserted the hispid Shsta i twice as long as the stigmatic; | 
achenia pubescent. —Hall d ( Harbour, 296. Twin ee wide Sierra Ma- 
dre Range, ue ter. 
APLOPAPPUS PYGMAUUS, Gr. (Stenotus pygmeus, T. & G. Fl. N. Am 
2, p. 237.) Stems 1/-2/ high from a branching caudex, 1-tlosvered ; radical 
leav es oblong-spatulate, 1/-14’ long; obtuse, somew hat 3-nerved, fimbri- 
iliate ; cauline leaves 3-4; head bracteate ; outer scales of the- 
ee foliaceous, phone) or ae madly obovate, very obtuse, pubes- — 
, inner ones oblong, rather acute, tinged with purple ; ars 12-16, 4 
ocier than the scales of thei inv olucre ; achenium pubese ent. Alpine — 
L& Harbour, 256. La Plata Mountain, at 14,000 feet altitude, C onda * 
Sangre de Cristo a Brandegee. Gray's Pe ak, Dr. Smith; Meehan. 
APLOPAPPUS LYALL, Gr., Proc. Am. Acad., March, 1863, p. 64. Note. — 
Pruinose- bah throughout, stems 2/—3/ high, lez ity, monocephalous; 
leaves very ouete sub-membranous, gener ail mucronate; radical 
and lo < oblong-spa ata te or oblanceolate, attenuate ‘at the 
base, uppermost lanceolate; scales of the jvoluere loosely imbricated _ 
in about 3. series, lan onplathy of nearly equ nose inner ones — 
acuminate with red tips, pe mong fe ste bn ligules 16-20, linear, — 
rather long; achenia almost linear, very glabrous ; ‘hairs of the. pappus 
a rather rigid, equaling the corolla of the disk. Alpine.— Parry. 
ee eee 
APLOPAPPUS INULOIDES, T;.& a Tomentose-woolly throughout, the 
pubescence mostly persistent ; stems branching from aw audex, 
ascending, 4/-7’ long; ri radical leaves lanceolate, acute, tapering ‘% the 
ase, entire, Pees ones lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sessile, partly 
clasping; heads solitary, large ; involucre about 1/ in di: ameter, ia: 
several series, oblong, ee or acute, pubescent or woolly; ra 
very numerous, scarcely twice the length of the cmpare nse scales, dee <5 
_ Yellow ; i naa Reet ian: —Hall& Harbour, 155. Sierra Madre 
Range, Coulte 
APLOPA ares CROCEUS, Gr., Proc. fen: [ain came ya ph i p- 65. Note. 
Stem 19-149 gh, sparingly leaved, ocephalous, at first wool 
leaves coriaceous, ¢ glabrous, very Gatiee a conspicuously reticulate 
radical ones oblong:lanceolate, with the petiole 6/—1° long, cauline lan: 
ceolate or oblong, partly clasping at base; head pe very spi 
volucre hemispherical, 1’ in = meter; scales ov al, ve 
ones somewhat erose- ileus ae the margin; rays sie we 
i ge nearly 1’ long, sattro colored above: ovaries 
ooth; pappus whitish, equaling the corolla of the disk. subalpine 
Hall & Ha ‘bour, 297. “Middle Park and Sierrs Madre Range, Coulter. 
K Soc., 
Ciara: «stems erect or ascending from a . wobay base, 5/12’ 
corymbosely branched above, leafy ; “leaves oblong, or linear-oblong 
sile, partly elasping at the base, acute with a mucronate tip, entire 01 
ae somewhat dénticntetss lower ones 2/-23/ piece 
tapering to the base; upper ones clasping by a broad base; heads t 
“tia the leafy branches, = about 1’ in diameter; seales of tl 
