SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 111 
soniewhat glabrate, ereet, 19°-3° high, branched ; oo oblong lance- 
late or the uppermost linear, acumina mh ee ate into a ‘petiole, 
entire or obscurely repand-dentate; lower ones 4/- 6) ‘long and 1/—2’ wide, 
the upper ones nae tionately narrower ; Howey | in loose t terminal race 
mes; calyx 3” long, tubular -eampantlate, teeth short, triangular, acute, 
equal; corolla narrow funnel-form, 1’ long, the short limbs spreading or 
more usually erect and closed ; capsule 3/5" long, exceeding the calyx, 
' ovate, acute, 2-valved, valves S bifid ; seeds pitted.” yobs sin in a pas 
Rep., ‘ol 5, p. 276, pl. 37--Gray’ ’s Peak, Dr. Smith. Ge - 
3 GEN TIANACEX. 
Ga ENTIANA AMARELLA, L. DC. Prod., 9, p. 95. (G@. acuta, Mx.) Stem 
slender, erect, simple, or ‘branched, 210 high; lowest leaves oval- “spat- 
ate, upper ‘one es ovate-lanceolate, sessile and snb- clasping, margils 
scabrous; cyme mostly compound, raceme-like; calyx 5-cleft, lobes lance- 
olate, somewhat 0 unequal, shorter than the cylindrical tube of the corolla; 
corolla pale blne, without folds, fringed at the base of the limb, a 
elliptie- Jinevolate, shorter than the “tu be; ovary oblong-linear, sessil 
—Hall & Harbour, 473; ery Canby. Twin Lakes aud Sierra Mase 
Range, C Ait Saba 
Var. STRICTA, waitsoi" > ri acuta, Mx. var. stricta, Griseb., DC. Prod., 
9, p. 96.) ‘Stem 20_4° high: cymes raceme like, axillary, strict, elongated, 
erect; flo * ae when dried becoming 2 yellow. —Mountains west ‘of Denver, 
B. H. Smith. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegec. 
Remini HETEROSEPALA, Eng. Trans. Saint Louis Acad., 1, p. 215. 
Annual erect, simple, 4’-16/ high, “few: flowered, glabrous; low est mii es 
0 reate-spatulat, yy ong, upper ones ovate e, bro ad at the base, 
sile, acute or sub-obtuse, margin minutely scabrous; flowers solita ane or 
fascicled i in the axils, on iiwa Ged = unequal leneth, (5/-18",) pale haa 
eke walyx" -cleft, two of ie eS reat » ovate, acute, 
2 _Gextt ANA DETO ONSA! detest it “ He wrbor ye ae Wet itoantain 
: Valley, Brandegee. B. H. Smith. te hae Helbety hear Twin Lakes, at 
16, 000 ‘feet altiiae: Coulter, 2% te 
G FENTIANA BARBELLATA, Eng. in Trans. if Gig tL. Steins 1-3 from 
a perennial caudex, re smooth, 1-flowered, 4! ‘high; leaves fleshy, 
obt tuse, with a very narrow , cartilaginous, crenulate 1 margin, lowest frst 
oblong or spatulate, atteatabed into a petiole sheathing at t ase, 
long, cauline few, linear, connate at base, lower pair elongated, at- 
 tennat base, the uppermost (2-4) broader at base, involucre-like 
below the sub-sessile Sather acute or acuminate; calyx 4-eleft, lobes 
triangular-lanceolate, scarcely lone er than the tube, much exceeding the 
tube of the ¢ orolla, 2 riot ng, outer ones a little broader, with a mem- 
branous margin, mostly aeeatns lobes of the deep azure-blue corolla 
tea r-O — ng, obtuse, erect-spreac ding, with the margins short-ciliate 
= Way up, p, dentate above, tube deeply campanulate, greenish-yellow 
a within; eon t of the purplish-brown filaments Satgiebien’ in the mid- 
dle, the free pa beset with long and slender ee glands between 
he bases 
e filaments conspicuous; ovary 0 , attenuate at base ; 
stigma semi- shinee sessile; seeds squamu stones —Mount Flora, in the 
Sn nge, P rra Mac oul 
arry. * Sie lre Range, Covlter. 
‘ENELL: , Fries. Be. Prod.,9, p. 98 Stem branching at 
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