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SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 91 
cave, slightly emarginate-bifid, lower deflexed, deeply 3-cleft, scarce 
equal in length to the oir i usually bearded ; tube elongated, scarcely 
ampliate ; sterile filament naked. 
Var. TORREYI, Gr. Bes - Mex. Bound., p. 114. (P. Torreyi, Benth. in 
DC. Prod. 10, p. B24 -) Pall, 2O-3° igh, glaucous; leaves entire, cau- 
line sessile, lanceola te or linear ; ; panicle elongated, few-flowered ; corolla 
1-14! long, pete dilated above, throat less bearded or naked : ; lips. 
especially the upper, a little longer; ; bright scarlet.—Hall & Harbour, 
395. Cation no Brandegee. Upper Siem, Porter. Ute Pass, Coul- 
ter. Not com 
PENTSTEMON GLABER, Pursh. Gr. Rev. loc., p. 59. Very glabrous; 
stems 6’/-3° high, usually several from the same root, stont; leaves fleshy, 
cipnoons, sessile, entire, 2/—4/ long; 4-9” wide ; flowers large, showy, in 
yrsoid panicle, sees purple, 12-15” long ; ; Sepals broadly ovate, 
Ole iecareec ss on the margin, obtuse or more or less pointed; corolla 
bright purple, showy, widely dila font above, the limb shortly 2-lobed 
with the lobes rounded and spreading equally, bearded in the throat; 
anthers loosely hairy, spaen the ps or zion une divaricate cells dehis- 
cent from the base nearly t sya summ ut not expande es sterile 
eet short-hirsute el A wince By hati —Ha rbour, 
Monument Park, Porter. oe eae Denver, Dr. Smith. Com- 
Va ar, ALPINUS, Gr. (P. alpinus, Torr.) qe 4’-12’ high, more strict, 
sometimes pruinose- paberaenty sepals from an ovate base or oblong- 
neeolat te, long acuminate.—Parry. URooky Mountains on both sides.” 
oopes 
PEt STEMON CYANANTHUS, Hook. Gr. Rev. [. ¢., p. 60. (P. : 
var. ‘aoe ig Gr.) Glabrous; stems slender fiat sna oe stout- 
1359°- igh; cauline leaves b y ovate oblong, acute or acumi, 
nate, 2/-4’ long, 1/-2’ broad; thyrsoid panicle Saute ane short, 4’ long: 
sepals ovate- lanceolate with a long attenuated acumination ; otherwi 
as in P. glaber—Platte River, Coulter 
GEI, Porter. Minately puberulent except the peduncles 
rec 
ose bulate ae 
ne. abruptly ventricose- weotnacte: thew upper ee and the ee 
lobes bright azure blue, paler or white beneath, slightly hairy in t 
throat, « mooth within ; ete filament seantily bearded under the dilated 
apex ; ‘eoaite ovoid, acute,—Sierr a Mojado, Brandegee. 
PENTSTEMON FREMONT, Gr. Gr. Rev. l. ¢., p. 60. Pruinose puber- 
Ulent, a span or more high; lower leaves ‘spatulate, cauline lanceolate, 
sessile ; ; panicle strict, spike- form, naked, cymules approximate, many- 
= aiagteg Ss short- peduncled ; ; sepals ‘oblong: ovate, acute, membra- 
n the margin; corolla 9” long, narrowly funnel-form, scarcely 
dare, anthers sparingly hirsute ; wetile filament dilated and bearded 
the ne 
— King’s Rep. vol. 5, p. 218. Stem slender, 1° 
hl 
20 eck: a lanceolate or ovate- lanceol ate, 2/ long, 4-9” wide; 
Panicle few. bie ania more or less interrupted, with the ps 
