76 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
5-7 broadly ovate scales, tipped with slender awns. Alpine.—Hall & 
Harbour, 276. W. et Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Mount Lincoln, at 14,000 
feet sere and Horse Shoe Mountain, Coulter. South Park, Canby. 
Meehai 
OTINELLA SCAPOSA, Nutt. Villous; seapes single from a woody 
= caudex, 6’-9' high, leafless, bearing a single head; leaves radical, linear- 
spatullate, ac cute or o usish, 2/-3' long, 2-3" w ide, ecom ming smooth and 
shin ing, conspicuously punetate, entire; heads 1/ ids ,including the rays; 
ah of the involucre ovate appressed, rather shorter than the disk, in 
out 3 series, densely villous ; rays about 12, 3/4” long, cuneate- ‘ob 
ies bright yellow, 4-nerved and 3- toothed; scales of the pappus 5, 
short-awned, oval.—Hall & Harbour, 275 Monument Park, Porter. Gar- 
den of the Gol Coulis : ay ae 
CTINELLA Ric Dsonu, Nutt. Puberulent; stems 3/6! high from 
a ‘peren: aiok Peon bra anching, woody caudex; leaves petioled, rigid, 
3/-6’ long, pinnately or irregularly 3-7 parted toward the s ummnit, divi- 
sions narrow ; inear; heads loosely corymbose, 9-12” broad, including 
the rays; involucre shorter than the disk ; scales in 2 rows, ’ oblong or 
ovate, the exterior united at the base ; pappus of 5-7 ey ate- ‘lanceolate, 
cuspidate-awned scales ; caudex and bases of the lower leaves wooll 
tomentose.— Hall sa Harbor ? O74. Abundant at, mniddte elevations, South 
Park and Ute Pass, Porter. Wilson Creek, Fremont County, Brande- 
gee. Canby. Twin pees and Weston’s Pass, Mae r. Redfield. 
ACTINELLA GRANDIFLORA, T. & G, Perennial, more or less densely 
“ clothed with soft, white woo l; stems erect from a woody caudex, Siam) 
striate, 6/-9/ high, leafy, simple or with 2-3 branches from the base 
middle of the stem : lower leaves mney OF ee parted, with 
margined’ petioles from broad scarious ba: —243’ long, including 
the pe ayer divisions linear; upper eauline le: ay és simple or sparingly 
divided ; heads very large, 2/—3/ broad, inclu uding the bright yellow 
Fays; ‘volts very’ densely woolly with copious white wool; scales 
of the involucre in about 2 series, lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the 
disk ; Hiealen: oblong, 6-12” in length, 2-5-cleft at the truncate apex; 
scales of the pappus 6-8, narrowly subulate, exceeding the tube of the 
corolla; achenia villous-hispid. A very showy, high- alpine plant. 
—Hall & Hurbour, 273. Parry ; Meehan. Mount t Lincoln, at feet 
altitude, on Een at 12,000 feet, and White House Mountain, at 
ou 
v Var GLABRATA, Porter. Softly tomentose, becoming glabrate ; 
stems simple from a woody caudex, 6/-8' hig b ed, nak 
, bearing a single head ; lower leaves Spatulate- linear, simple 
or 3-7-parted at the summit, with long, flat, margined peti oles - 
mewhat expanded, searious nay apa 2'-3' long, prac pl the petio 
divisions linear ; upper leaves linear, entire; heads 14/14’ “broad inclu 
ing the rays; scales o ‘the involucre ‘ov vate, rather obtuse, in about 
series, woolly, but n aes conspicuously s », mach ehaster: thant ae isk; 
ligules abo 
oF eoappin 5, su ‘Cittata! acuminate, s sharply erie on the ‘mars ie 
much shorter than the yor of the ck, Py: i achenia Villose 
—— de Cristo Pass, Brand 
UM AU romaiae L. —Platte near Denver, Dr. Smith. Wet 
HEL 
Mountain Valles, Brandegee. 
Hoopes, a Proce. Acad. Phil., March, 1863, p. 65. 63. Note. 
somewhat 6 meontose abov ve, 
striate-angi ok Pe eno 
