y 
ee eee ee strongly reticulated, pinkish-purple wings; see 
Pericarp distinet, membranaceons. Seed horizontal, jinmaelac. strongly 
Testa crustaceous. DC. Prodr., 13, 2d pt. 
116 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
ALLIONA!INCARNATA, L. DO. Prod.13, 2d pt., p. 434. _ Stem herbace- : 
ous, prostrate, elongated, whitish jmioariy woolly; leaves spetioled, aps 7 
in the e same pair, obtuse at ea ach en ro ase, 
gin sinuate, whitish-villése ; ; peduncles solitary lobes of the involuete 
lanceolate, enn reflexed after flow —Caion City, 1873, Gre 
A’? FRAGRANS, Nutt. V iscid. ee aresth: stems numerous nee 
a nea root, ascending 4°-14° high; leaves oblong or ovate, trun- 
cate or more or less cuneate at base ; obtuse or acutish ; ; peduncles, mostly 
ac 
row 
not crested ; seed 13” long. —Hall & Harbour, 572. Plains near Denver, 
Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith, Near Colorado Springs, Porter. Monument 
Park, Coulter. 
ABRONIA CYCLOPTERA, Gr. Sill. Jour., (N.5.,) 15, p. 319. Glandular- 
pubescent; stems prostrate or ascending, 6/-18’ long; leaves oblong, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cuneate at base, obtuse, 1/2’ long ; peduncles 
short ; involucre of 5 ovate, acuminate bracts, 2/’- 5” long ng, 8-20 flowered ; 
flowers bri ght rose-color, ‘6-19! long, tube piibobecst: stamens 3-5; 
fruit 7/12" long, 4-10” wide, including the 2-4 (usually 3) large a 
24/4 g—Hall & Harbour, 573. Upper Arkansas, Porter. Grape 
Creek, ean County, Coulter. 
CHENOPODIACE #. 
_ TELOXYsS’ corRNUTA, Torr. Bot. Whippl., P. R. R.,p.129. Glabrous, 
12’-15/ high, very much bran nched ; leaves repand. dentate and pinnatifid ; 
segments ‘of the calyx acute, short beaked on the back ; calyx beset with 
minute, elevated glands; flowers minute, terminal and sessile in the 
forks of the slender, dichotomous branchlets; the terminal ones soon 
fall away, leaving slender, persistent, awnlike ‘pedicels ; seed orbicular, 
sya rounded on the margin and closely covered with the utricle bien 
ongly adheres to its gene Mavens west of rectal Dr. Sm 
B. H. Smith. Pueblo, 
CYCLOLOMA bee ehete er Moq.—Near Denver ‘and Colorado 
Springs, Porter. 
CHENOPODIUM ALBUM, L.—Exceedingly variable——Caiion City, Bra 
degee. Denver and Colorado Springs, Porter. Mount Elbert near r Twin 
a at 10,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 
ona, Linn. Involucre gamophyllous, 3-cleft, 3-flowered. Peérigonium very 
omit ‘limb 4-lobed. Stamens 4, freely included. | Sty Te saple: perdi capitate. Fruit 
covered with the indurated base 0: 1e perigonium, spinulose on the back. Embryo 
plicated. «De Candoile. 
? ABRONIA, Juss. Involucre perfect, of tien 5 distinet ache ey head nies flowered. 
Calyx salver-form, with obcordate lobes. Stamens 5, included, adnate to the gr 
Style included ; stigma capitate or linear-clavate, Pe: nat it 5-win: . » Seed cy 
lindrical, smooth. Embryo by abortion monocoty ledonous, infolge the eeirtral meaty 
albumen.—Low herbs, with thick opposite petioled t mequal leaves; peduncles axillary 
and terminal, anc cyvam! in solitary iglanecade heads. ae 
*TELOXYs, Mog. Flowers perfect, bractless. Calyx ‘5-parted, segments subconeates 
at length subcarinate, Bboy: appendiculate. Stamens 9, subperigy nous. Filame: 
ompressed, thickish, subdilated below. Ant Pea etnies Stami 
Nectary small, annular, a ent go fleshy. Paden superior, dep 
_ terete, thickish. Utricle depressed. Calyx angulate, involute, mek entirely loved: 
depressed 
