SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 119 
AMABANTACE €. 
AMARANTUS RETROFLEXUS, L.—Caiion City, Brandegee. Plains around 
Denver, Coulter. Introduced. 
-AMARANTUS Pari, L.—Plains around Denver, Dr. Smith. Cation 
City, Brandege 
MONTELIA TAMARISCINA, Gr.—Around Denver, Dr. Smith; B. H. 
Smith. Cation City, Bra indegee. 
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i FRELICHIA FLORIDANA, Moq.—Around Denver, Dr. Smith. “ Sand 
hills on the plains,” Hallé Harbour, 487. ton biizg ne Prligencrih, Cogf, / 
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PARONYCHIE®. ~~ a Fo twrn Fan. 
PARONYCHIA PULY INATA , Gr. Proc. Acad. Phil., March, 1868, p. 58. — 
eee: cepa from z » woody root, forming dense cushion-like tuft 
early glabrous 18, aaa atte sending out short nearly naked pubescent 
feos: ‘stipules 's silvery , broa dly ovate, SOU: pointless, the uppermost 
somewhat acute but bt unt, 2” long; leave thick, oblong, obtuse, cilio- 
ee seabr gus fapon the margin and somew hat minutely glandular-pubes- 
t, 23-3” long and 1’ w ide, bright green and nerveless, equaling the 
Rihittes and with them densely covering the short ste ems; flowers im- 
mersed among the leaves, solitary, te rminal. sessile: sepals ova ul, broadly 
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5, similar to the fertile filaments; ovary glabrous, tapering into 
rather short style. Alpine—Hall & Harbour , 66; Parry, 297. Mount 
Lincoln, at 13,000 feet altitude, Coulter 
PARONYCTIIA SESSILIFLORA, Nutt. R oot woody, very densely czespi- 
tose, much branched and crowded ; branches very dense, 2 2’ high ; leaves 
imbricated, Lad peaneneti lowest erect, obtuse, the upper longer, re- 
> aba spreadin acute o ucronate, rather longer than the 2-cleft 
ules; flo owers t ernie. "solit tary, sessile sepals ‘arched at the apex 
lg with divergent setace ous awns ather s shorter, Caynaeeee ob- 
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seurely 3-nerved ; ‘sterile sete as long ast the filaments; style a gas 
the sepals, 2-clett at the apex—South Park, Canby. Wet Mountain 
: ‘andegee. 
cae SRONYCHTA JAMESH, T. & G. Very minutely scabrous-pubescent 
cespitose, much branched from the base, stems 4/6’ high; leaves lin near: 
sibalate, 0 obtuse 4 nie tid a eran of the e internodes, keh most 
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. _ Erroconum! acarum, Torr. Sitgreaves’ Rep., p. 168, t. 8. Perennial; 
_ foot stont and blackish; stem erect, 1°-3° high, arising from a short, thiek 
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: 'ER1I0GoNUM, Michx. Inyolucre many-flowered, (seldom few, or very rarely 1-flow- 
— ered,) cam ; shaped, or cylindric, usually 5-S-toothed or lobed, pointless. 
jointed upon their pedicels, which are more or less exserted fro agi ge 
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Stamens 9. Achenium triangular, species 3- picasting 
sca hae or undershrubs, mostly west of the Mississigpl 
