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4’-14’ in length; sepals appressed, broadly ovate, es obtuse, with a 
minute mucro, 5” long; corolla funnel-form, 2’/-23’ long, purple; sta- 
mens inserted near the base, filaments villous at the base, omen ob- 
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capitate; ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell—On the Platte 
near Denver and on the mesas around Colorado Springs, Porter and Dr. 
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‘CONV Wolpe lees tg Eng. & Gr. Pl. Lindh., p. 44. (C. hastatus, 
Nutt. Zrans. Amer. Phil. Soe. y (It. ser.,) 5, p. 194, non Thurd. C. Nuttallii, 
Torr. in Emory’s Rep., p. 149.) Loot perennial; stem twining, herbaceous 
and pubescent ; leaves petiolate, on either surface covered with a short 
base two lateral, reflexed and toothed, or almost entire lobes, the cen- 
tral segment more than twice their length and double their breadth; 
peduncles solitary, mostly 2-flowered, much lon ger than the leaves, the 
pedicels each producing 2 2 bracts; segments of the 5-leaved calyx exter- 
nally pubescent, imbricated, oval and ‘obtuse, tinged with purple; corolla 
rose-colored; stigma as 2, filiform; capsule a celled, cells 2-seeded.— 
ey City, ’ Brandegee e. 
YSTEGIA SEP bid R. Br.—Along the gg near Denver and 
Geiss Springs, Po Pleasaut P: rh Coulte 
EVOLVULUS ARGENTEUS, Pursh.—Hall & Harbo our, 579. Canon City, 
Brandegee. Plains of the Platte, Coulter. Colorado Springs, Porter. 
CUSCUTA ARVENSIS, Beyrich. Eng. Monog., Trans. Saint Louis Acad., 
vol, 1, p. 494. Var. pentagona, Eng. l.¢., p. 494. Calyx thin and shining 
lobes orbie ets as long or longer’ than the shallow tube of the sera 
oe? where they join, 5 proj jecting angles.—Hall & Harbour, 464. 
JUSCUTA DECORA, Eng. l. ¢., p. 501. On P: ene: near Denyer, Dr. 
Smith. Cation City, eae tagee. Plains, Porter 
CUSCUTA A GRONOVH, Willd. Eng. I. ¢., p. 507.--Caiion City, Brande- 
gee. ute Springs, Porter ; climbing high on Clematis ligusticifolia. 
Foot of the Spanish ge Huerfano County, Greene 
CuscuTa CUSPIDATA, Eng. 1. ¢., p. 509. In BORE pe loosely panien- 
late y with many ine Goes bracts on. the pedicels and a the base of the 
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surrounding sterile bracts; ovary oval, with a thick ae ean : cap- 
sule thick ‘and glandless at the apex; seeds about 4” long, obovate, 
compressed, ro , With a very short oval, mostly transverse hilum ; 
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SOLANACEAE. 
SOLANUM TRIFLORUM, Nutt. Gen. 1, p.128. Stem unarmed, herba- 
Ceous, procumbent, hirsutulous ; leaves petiolate, pinnatifid, segm tata 
acute, enti ath or dentate, with broad sinuses; peduncles nearly oppos 
Sond leave, s, 2-3-flowered; calyx about 5-parted, lobes linear “ebtong ig 
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of a her, when ripe blackish-brown.—Butfalo Peaks, Coulter. Colo- 
_tado Springs, Porter. Hall & Harbour, 467. Denver, Dr. Smith, 72. 
SoLANUM ie L.—Cafion City, Brandeges. Greene. via de 
Dunak DC. Prod., 13, p. 329. oe 
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