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110 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
spines and pilose throu ghout: with cinereous-stellate hairs; leaves petioled, 
spiny, obovate in outline, 2! —5' long, 5-7 lobed, lobes obovate, obtas 
racemes 2’—3/ long, oe flowered ; sir EG V long; pedicels 3//-4” long, 
I-flowered, longer in fr sie calyx villous, globose-cup-form, tube ve 
Spiny, onger iw Oi n length corolla yellow, about 5-clett, the lobes 
adly ovate, aente, plicate mens 5, Sg Bi eee age one 
tes larger than the others, rrodnoed, in into a long curved beak ; berry 
about 4-celled, included, in the spiny cay noun on e tro plains. 
Hall & Harbour, 465. Near Denver, Dr. Smith ; B. + nith. Cation 
City, Since Ad bas ie of bi Platte, Coulte 
Sou HETER um, Dun DC. Prod., is. p- 331. In most 
pots ‘Tike the p ceaatinir aay the aS are smaller, less deeply lobed 
an an nger petioles; “the yellow spines are shorter; flowers corym- 
bos eye ustered, 3-5; corolla blue, small, 5-6” in diameter, plicate, 
hirsute- patwseent without, tube short, limb 5 5-cleft ; stamens 5, unequal, 
half as long as the cor olla; filaments oan smooth; berry globose, at 
first green, then black, 2-celled.—On the plains near Gre elev, Porter. 
i PILYSALIS ANGULATA, L.—Canon AN Brandegee. Hay er, Dr. 
mith. : 
PHYSALIS PUBESCENS, L.—Caiion City, Brandeg 
. PHYSALIS viscosa, L.—Cafion City, ee “Palarnan Sprivgs, 
ai 
YSALIS PENNSYLVANICA, L., var. hANCEOLATA, Gr—Plains of the 
Platte and Pleasant Park, € ‘oulter. Canon City, Brandegee. Denver, Dr. 
Smith. Ute Pass, Porter. . 
PHYSALIS LOBATA, Torr. Ann, N. Y. Lye., 2, p. 226, Much branched 
from the base; branches prostrate, decumbent ascending, smoot 
angie, 0! mabe 12/— 18/ lon ng; leave s oblong or ovate, irregularly lobed or 
etimes lyrate, lobes very obtuse, abruptly narrowed, into a 
petiole iitery or in ely nearly smooth; tlowers solitary, nodding, on 
filiform pedu poi about half as long as the leaves; cals subeampanu- 
late, with 5 acute lobes, minutely. tomentose at the tips and margins, 
often civersd as well as the pedicels with minute white granules, about 
23" in diameter ; Saati campanulate- rotate, purple or ochrolencous, 9" 
in diameter; stamens 5, filar Ss r than the co orolla, smoo 
Fruetiferous calyx much inflat ad and lar ger than the berry, 1’ long and 
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1 wide.—Hall & Harbour, 466. Colorado. Springs, Porter. Canon “City, 
BEE oe Le 
Brandegee. 
Sicha * (2) Coronopts, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p§155. (So ola- 
. Cor : Annual, erect or pprending, branched above; 
leaves ‘Hinbohite or linearlanceolate, sessile, tapering to the base, 1/-2' 
long, nearly entire, toothed or deeply pinnatitid; flowers solitary or i 
pairs | on slender pedicels which are at length re flexed ; ; corolla dull yel- 
low, 5/’-6” in ¢ lameter ; fruit globose, size of a large pea, n nearly white 
ene’ mature, pas i “d 3 or more by the calyx.—Cafion City, Brandegee- 
Pueblo, Green ee 
Mivaciiink”' AT TENU ATA, Torr. “Annual, glutinous-pubescent oF 
'WITE ITHANTA, Pauquy. ¥: - Caly: <i campamralate, 5-cleft; lobes subulate, inflated after 
Cor 
, more or less covering t olla campanulate, ‘funnel-fo 
tore longer than the cz -cleft. Stamens 5, insertec he tube of the 
corolla, equal or large ; fi nts subulate, often dilated at the base, naked or squa- 
moose; anthers yellow, oblong, equal to or shorte an the filaments. Ovary ovate- 
globose, smooth, closely surrounded at base by Pa —e glandulose, annular disk, 2- 
eelled. Plac rentie adnaie to. the lissepimenty /o ‘ s many. Style simple straight, 
1e disse 
nora ouasl ¢ o the stamens or a little rena Piges, capitate. Berry globose, ee 
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Seeds many, subreniform. E — fleshy, subcirenlar. DC . Prodr, 
