80 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
stems eel or branched above, 1°-14° high, bearing 3 or more heads, 
leafy to the s paar leaves oblong lanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire 
or sparingly dentic ate, 3-—5-nerved, ra and lower cauline ones 
narrowed in apes petioles, the rest (2- 6 phy sessile; rays s she 
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involucre nels villous-pubescent; achenia minutely hirsute.-—H. 
Ha (cs ur, 337. South Park. 
A MOLLIS, Hook. Readily distinguished by its almost plumose | 
pap ee oath and sub-alpine.”——Ha ue & Harbour, 335; Dr. Smith. 
Sierra Mawes Range, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 
LATIFOLIA, Bong. Spar ingly hirsute- praconere pre nearly 
s thi 
ve 
sharply serrate, veiny; the radical ones on long, slender petioles, cauline 
in about 3 pairs, closely sessile by a cordate see or the lowermost some- a) 
what petioled; heads solitary or 1-2 additional from the uppermost 
axils, rather small; involucre obconic; ie. lanceolate; ace 
somewhat hairy towards the base; ligules narrow; rchenia early 
gt 
smoo oo —Parry, 408. White House Mountain, at 12 400 feet nliiendas 
Coulte 
ec CORDIFOLIA, Hook. Woolly-pubescent, becoming glabrate 
with age; caudex slender, creeping; stems 6/14! high; leaves thinnish, 
radical and lower ones cordate, roundish, obtuse r acute, on —— slew 
der petioles, denticulate or sharply toothed, the cauline 1-3 
shorter it less deeply cordate and more a aente, the sisleesl a 
ile; heads rather large, 1-3, on long peduncles; involucres villous- 
pubescent; Santen lanceolate, often somewhat abruptly acuminate ; 
achenia hirsute.—Hall & Harbour, 336. Common; ; alpine and sub- alpine; 
very variable in size. Gray’s Peak, Dr. Sm ith. South Park, U 
Meehan. Sierra Madre Range, Mount Lincoh, at 13,000 feet ciecame | 
Twin Lakes and Clear Creek Caiion, Coulte 7 
SENECIO LUGENS, Richards. Pere anink iO tomentose, deciduously” 
lanate or nearly smooth; stem 6/—2° high, often several from one root; 4 
leaves ed, 2-8 Tong toothed or pe arias, poo reage Sa eenTey 
veine 9 
i, rath eke into ¢ a . petiole, eauline sessile and waded y clasping, lan- 
ceolate: rymb open or dense; heads variable in size, usually rather 
large; Pilsen with a few bractlets at the stag seales linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, with blackish-purple tips; rays from 10-12, oblong- linear; 
twice as long as the involucre; achenia a glabrous 
Var. HOOKERI, Eaton. Kin g's Rep., vol. 5, p. 188, (8. lugens, Hook. 
Fl. Bor. ee A , 332, t.114.) Deciduously tomentose or smooth; stem 
simple; leav s entire or glandular-toothed; radical ones oblong-spata- 
late, caalae “ah neeolate, acute, clasping; a day mb dense; scales of the 
involucre conspicuously sphacelate.—Dr. Smith. Cation pay Fic 
Mec an. iets Madre Range, at 11,500 feet altitude, Coul 
Var. PARRYI, Eaton.l.¢e. Sli ghtly webby at first pate st slab 
al Saar aes toothed, rather broad ; involucral scales scarcely 
not at all blackened at the tips.—Long’s Peak and Head of Ha ft 
Cation, Coulter. 
ae Var. EXALTATUS, Eaton, l. c., (8. evaliatus, N ier. Stem ape corymb 
ensely webby-tomentose, stout, 14°-2° high ; leaves nearly 
finely glandular-denticulate, ample; lowe pos Gent nm 
d 2’ b $ small, in a dense compound, somewhat umbel-Hik 
mb ; ‘scales of the involucre with a dark midyein and the ane somie- 
