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112 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
base; pedicels 1-flowered, frequently 2 ‘high; lowest leaves spatulate, 
upper ones few, oblong; calyx deeply 5-parted, segments pti! unequal, 
obtuse, at length shorter than the cylindrical tube of the e 
’ the deep blue corolla, ovate, acutish, about equaling ye tube.— 
Gray’s Peak, Greene. August, 1872. 
GENTIANA HUMILIS, Stey. DC. Prod., 9, p. 106. Babin ehuwashiea 4 -2' 
high, laxly branched from the base; branches 1-flowered; leaves smooth 
with white margins, more or less apiculate; lowest yer: ovate, upper 
ones lance- oblong, at first crowded and imbricated on the stems; calyx 
5-eleft; lobes ovate-lanceolate, erect, shorter than the scarcely enlarged 
atube of the corolla; corolla blue lobes s ovate, half the length o he 
tube; folds entire, r rout aoe a tte shorter than the lobes; style none; 
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capsule obovate or somewhat g ose, attenuated at the base, ee 
at ae Loa Alpi spay) arry. Tene 2’s Peak, at 9,000 feet altitude, June 2 
Co je € 
Sask PROSTRATA, Henke. DC: Pred., 9, p. 106. Var. AMERI- 
CANA, Engelm. Stems simple, 6-2 high, slender; leaves oval- Apaliae 
mostly obtuse, not pointed, smooth on the margin; flowers small, 4 
parted, deep blue; ye th of the calyx 5, ovate, lanceolate, ac ute, 
shorter than the little-enlarged tube of the ane ; tube of the corolla 
twice longer than the ovate e lobe rae folds often more than half the lenght 
of the lobes, nearly entire; style short; ¢ sag oblo Shed linear, base at- 
tenuated into a short stipe.—Hall ¢ Harbor "47 5 
GENTIANAFRIGIDA, Heenke. DC. Prod.,9,p. 11. a. Lega 
solitary, ascending; leaves spatulate- linear, obtuse, smooth o inar- 
in ; flowers ‘ag solitary, terminal; calyx 5- cleft, the lobes ilies: his 
half as long as the ¢ ‘orolla ; coro olla plaited, elandless and beardless, nar 
rowly mie whitish, with blue spots, lobes short, ovate, 3 times longer 
the entire fi olds; anthers free; testa slightly winged ; Eh pai, at 
Bate 
Var. ALGIDA, Pall. Stem usually taller, with the flowers, from: 14/-8” 
high ; Gea broade er; flowers 1-3, pe ediceled, 14/-2’ long, more tinged 
with purple; calyx somewhat unequal and split ; lobes of the corolla. 
longer. High alpine.—Hall & Harbour, 472. Parry, 305. Summit of Pike’s 
Peak, Can nby. Gray’s Reak, vi Smith: B. = Loo Mount La Plata,. 
at 14, 000 feet altitude, € ‘oulte 
A AFFINIS, Griseb. De. Pidai 9, aNd, Pisoviat. stems clus- 
GENTIAN 
tered, ascending 8/-20/ high; lower leaves obovate- 4 ng, obt use, the: 
oS 
upper lanceolate, rather acute, scabrous on the margin ; flow wers solitary 
and pediceled, or clustered and sub-sessile; calyx 5- cleft, lobes plone 
linear or spore hine in dilated, very variable, often almost wanting , rarely al 
present ; a blue , beardless and glandless, narrowly clavate, opely- 
twice ease than the calyx, the lobes oblong, obtu se, thrice longer than 
the cleft folds; Be ary connate or twisted or di ee ; anthers tree; 
testa slightly winged; seeds pe beg or oblong, SE A or wingless. 
Hall Harbour, 468 and 469 Park, Hayden. Parry, 439; “Canby; 
k, 
Dr. Smith; B.H. Smith. Wet Montntain Vatey Brandegee. Twin Lakes: 
and Sierra Madre Range, Coulter, 9 “Lee. y<. 
GENTIANA PARRY, Engelm. Piditn. Saint Louis Acaa., 1,p. 218.. Peren- 
~ nial; stems 1 or several ascending or erect, 4/-9/ high, simp fue leafy,- 
few-ilo wered ; leaves mewhat glaucous, broa road at base, sessile. 
ovate, ovate or pehie-laiseniane , 10-15" long, 3-10” wide, ‘Senerved, 
the uppermost earinate and boa t shaped, involuerate to the large, oo 
flowers which are 15-18” lon ry dee le, greenish below, ee 
cep purple 
_ widening upward, with lobes a thera. = a iag as the tube; e: ae —_ - 
