114 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
ASCLEPIAS JAmMeEsII, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 162. Very smooth, 
somewhat glancous; stem stout, a st Jeay — orbicular or orbic- 
ular-obovate, subcoriaceous, retuse soe oben at me — 
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many-tlowered, short-peduncled ; broil ereen ish, ments’ piety 
ovate; hoods purplish, dilated, obliquely- tr panded the horn with the 
=a point exserted and projected partly over the stigma; pods ovoid, 
ooth.—Caion City, Brandegee. 
| xcs BRAC HYSTEPHANA, Eng. Bot. l.¢.,p.163. Stem branch- 
ing, 8/-12’ high; le anes opposite, linear- lanceolate, abruptly narrowed 
y aunt’, gradu: tapering to a long, narrow 
; sebe ls 3-8; peduneles shorter than the nedieela; 
corolla dull- pur ple, segments ovate-oblong, Bane 
hoods broader than long, toothed on the inner margins; falciform pro- 
cess vertical ; see oblong, SI ieoth, "9! long, acumini ate. —On the plains. 
: rai aloe oe BERER ES a 
Eb ee ea FOLIA,—Deeatsne.— Hall & Harbour, 480. Cation 
Ov-y city, Brander. Upper Arkansas, Porter. Monument Park, Coulter. 
4 Asc BEROSA, L.—Cation City, Brandegee. 
peteeireesny VERTICTLLATs L.—Caiion City, Brandegee. Eastern Col- 
orado, Dr. Smith. 
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& Harbour, 481. A common ‘ora on the ahs verbose: Denver and Col- 
orado Eis coe 6 Caion City, Brandegee. Dr. Smith. 
- 8, Dec saishe D 0. Py ‘od, 8 8, p. 552. Stems 19-2° 
CERTES DECUMBEN 
long, secre "decumbent, pasoanserit angular; Jeaves scattered an 
ubopposi te, ovate-lanceolate, or more usually narrow-lanceolate, (6/ long, 
4-1’ wide,), a margins scabrous; umbels terminal, sub-glo ose } 
corolla-lobes ovate, greenish-yellow; hoods purple, equaling the lobes 
and exceeding the.§ aisk j pods smooth, 4’ long, 1’ in diameter.—S. Colo- 
_ rado, Hoopes. 
Acaeatea VIRIDIFLORA, Ell.— Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. 
i. ACERATES AURICULATA, Engelm. Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 160. mi 
; es 2°-3° high, somewhat glaucous ; leaves scattered, linear, filiform 
r na arrowly linear, slightly ‘scabrous ‘put not revolute on the pare 
4-6 long, less than 1” wide ; umbels several, axillary, many- -flower 
on short peduncles; pedice Is 6” long, pilose ; “calyx villose on the oat. 
_ side; lobes of the corolla reflexed, 23 long; hoods obscurely 3-toothed 
at the apex, involute on the margins, very “pro adly biauric ‘ulate at base, 
with large triangular wings ; pods lanceolate, ae ek 3'-4' longue 
Near Denver, Dr. Smi ithe” Caton City, Brandegee.,, Pueblo, Redfield. 
JASMINE E.' 
-MENopora’ scaBRA, Gr. Sill. Jour., (2d. Series,) 14, p. 44. Stems erect, 
ie a cee 
1 JASMINE, Brow Flowers sin regular; ¢ lyx persistent, dentate ¢ wr lobed, 
obes 5-8 ; corolla ies pogonous, gamopetalous, 5-8 lot ed, salver-f orm, lobes imbricate 
ion, two exteric or aly. te; ats to the tube an 
included, anthers 2-eelled, cell secing 
te of a hypogonous disk, 2-celled, 2-lobed at 
each cell or rarely 2-4; style simple, men cheng ai 
arded in the throat; limb Siar ai Woes Gore or rover, is scarcely a 
3 fi ts filiform; anthers aimless. 
