SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 113 
membranous, entire, the lobes smear, shorter ae the tube; pubs of 
corolla 
oa al- 
pine.—Hall & Harbour, 470; Parry; Canby. Gray's eak, Dr. Smith ; 
B. H. Smith. North Park, "Ha yden. Twin Lakes, at 10,000 feet ak 
ASER ECIOSA, Dougl. . Biennial, ae stout, erect, 3°-5° high 
7 diet, aédally simple elabrous, not suleate; leaves in fours, thick, acut- 
ish or act ite, 7-9 ne ed, the lowest ablOkE. ‘like eolate, 6/-9 long, 90 wide, 
attenuate into a th petiole, the cauline connate at base, the upper most 
linear; the racemose cyme ensely-flowered, elongated ; flowers 1’ in 
diameter, the petals bearded at the’ base between the filam ents; calyx- 
segments linear, acuminate, rather shorter than the w whitish, punctate 
petals; glands in pairs, elliptic-oblong; filaments dilated at  b: 
scarcely united; style about equaling the ovary.—Hall & Harbour, 553. 
Monument Park, Co ulter. ae te Pass, Porter. Abundant’ at lower and 
middle slavit tion 
SWERTI A! PERENIS La DC. Prod, 9, p. 132. Stems erect, 6/-20/ high, 
BV siiiiry: flowered ; lower leaves oblong: elliptic, loug-petioled, cauline 
ones iptdaive.’ ovate oblong, obtusish ; flowers erect, 6’’-8” in diameter. 
- Steel-blue, with darker spots ; corolla-segments coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 
acutish, twice longer than the lanceolate calyx-lobes ; elands i in pairs, 
orbicular, the fimbriate crest distinct; stigma reniform, sulcate; seeds 
winged.— Hall & Harbour, 476. Gray’ 3 Pe: ak, Dr. Smith. Parry; ; "Canby. 
Twin Lakes, at 10, mist feet altitude, Coulter 
PLEUROGYNE?ROTATA,Griseb. DC. Pro ..9 , D- 122. peer simple, 
erect, 3/-6’ high, ticsienig 1-few flowers at the summit; lowest leaves 
spatulate, the uppermost linear, obtuse; segments of the éaity x lance- 
Mear, equaling the ¢ orolla; ovary acute. = Spyth Park, sibalpine,” 
Hall & Harbour, 477 Dries ed r 
ieee ya 
Modeeuuit a eee L.—Plains of the Platte, near Dae 
deed tes tha Seats re . 
UM IN —Plains of the Platte, Coulter. Wet 
hte Valley, Br Bradilopee ‘Notun 
ASCLEPIADACE.E. 
ing glabrate ; steni simple, 20_50 high ; leaves 4/-8’ long, 
ovate, acute, short-petio oled or the u uppermost nearly sessile, kes = 
-8piculate; umbels axillary and terminal, solitary, many-flowe ae 
ic a) oe 
x Is oO ‘OF 
» ovate, long-acuminat e, bidentate at the base within, thrice longer 
‘than the stigma and the compressed, incurved horn; pods 4’ long, 1’ in 
eter.—Plains near crete B. H. Smith. Golotade Springs, Porter. 
Plains of the Platte, Coulter 
; ErRTIA, L. Flowers 5- (or sone a ine, merous. Calyx-segments united at the 
very base, valvate. Corolla te, without corona or folds, glands fimbriate 
the gin. Stamens inserted on aus throat; filam _ equal at pase j anthers at 
cumbent, nodding. Stigma terminal, seated. ovary. continuous, emar- 
ee senitorsn.._§ ‘Capsule L-elled, pen yes septic ye ‘Sends numerons, attached to 
Vi —, 
Vos isle Eachoite. As in Swertia, except that the. two lateral stigmas are 
ent upon the margins of the poalvee and eeeers ose above. 
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