82 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO 
angles.—Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith. Twin Lakes, Bear nee Long’s Peak, 
and Ute _ Monit Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee 
_~ Var. cROCEUS, Gr. Proc. Acad. Phil., March, 1863, p. 68. Sandi rad- 
ical heaiedar maid ahaa, more or less crenately-toothed or incised ; 
corymb rather compact; rays saffron-yello w.—Hail & promt 332. 
South Park, Porter. Wet Mountain Vi alli: Brandegee. Twin Lakes 
Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 feet altitude, and White House Modutnial at 
13,000 feet, Coulter 
NECIO LONGILOBUS. Benth. Glabrous; stems 2°-24° high, usually 
“much branched; branches erect; leaves linear, somewhat tapering to 
won base, 2/—4 in le ength, 1//-2” wide, entire or Saha omen 3-9 parted, divis- 
ns linear, divaricate; heads corymbose, calyculate, with a few small 
dh 8, 5! long ; sc scales of the involucre glabrous, vel lanceolate, with 
— margins, finely striate; pappus bright white e; achenia eae io 
canescent. ranches of the e pan nicle often flexuose.—Can 
‘Smith ; Sete Sy 328. Plains around Denver, Dr. Smith. ” Along 
the e Platte, Coulte 
CIO FILIFOLIUS, Nutt. r. JAMES, T. & G. Suffruticose, 
i» > SENECI » Va ) 
mers roranched, densely tomentose-canescent; branches very leafy0 the 
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; ¢ 
summit; leaves narrowly linear, 3/ long, entire or pinnately-parted, divis- 
ions 3-9, argins revolute; heads in a terminal corymb, rather large; 
involuere somewhat calyculate; rays 7-8, linear, rather long; achenia 
canescently-strigose.—Canon City, Brandegee. 
10 CERNUUS, Gr. Sill. Jour., (N.S. :)v. 33, p. 10. Glabrous; stem 
slender, 14° high, paniculate at vee summit; leaves lanceolate or linear: 
lanceolate, tapering at the base into a long petiole, subciliate on the 
rgins, ingly jones or coma. entire, lower leaves, including the 
petiole, 4/-7’, long, 1’ ; heads numerous, small, scarce 6” long, nod- 
bro 
ding, discoid pedie els 1- "2 ‘bracteolate;, involucre with a few minute 
bracteoles at base; achenia very glabro — Hall & Harbour, 320; Parry, 
52; Dr. Smith. Ute Pass gots Twin ‘Lakes, Port 
SurRaio CANUS, Hook. Whitish-tomentose throu ate stems tufted, 
2’-12’ high; radical leaves oblong-spatulate, entire, eauline sessile, lan- 
ceolate, parity oeepinigs sinuate- paar or somewhat toothed towards 
the ay s few, in a simple corymb; involucre centy ecalyculate; 
rays 8-12. Re coeeg acnenia fe ees —Hali & Harbour, 330. “ Alpine and 
sub-alpine,” Par wrry, 2 
SENECIO a Richards. Perennial, glabrous; stem stti- 
ate, often purplish, 1°-4° high, corymbosely branched toward the sum- 
mit, Ways leaves Serger be long, 6-12” wide, lower some- 
ses- 
toothed; heads many, in ¢ 
shaped ; calyculate bractlets few; scales often -blackish-tipped and 
sph rays 7-9, rather r long; achenia striate, glabrous.—Hall & 
Harbour, 327. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Ute Pass, Porter. Caton City, 
o Fremontu, T. & G. Penweaiaks gicbees stems 1-several, 
3/15! high, leafy to the top, often decumbent; leaves sessile, oblong 
er obova atulate, somewhat fleshy, ineteahcadoneate or obscurel) 
toothed, upper ones 1/2’ long, lower - mailer; head é 
erect 
long, sparingly practeolate ; rays 10-16, velo achenia crc “ 
pine.”— Hall & Harbour, 322, Dr Smit win Lakes, 
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