SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 135 
goa RINUM!' MONTANUM. Nutt. Leaves 6’-8’ long, 1-3” 
flat or somewhat folded toward the base, thick, finely striate- siehes 
Reanbent: outer bracts broad, acute or obtuse, the inner narrower and 
elongated ; "flow wers 4-8, much shorter than the leaves ; peduncles $/-14/ 
long, all radical, one- flowered ; tube persistent, 1/-2’ long, filiform, seg- 
ments of the limb 6-12” long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; “anthers linear, 
about 2” long; style equaling the fila ments; capsule 3-4” in diameter. 
—Abundant¢ on the plains east of the mountains. A charming little plant 
with delicate, snow-white, fragrant setae which appear in early 
spring.—Hall & Harbour, 548. “Colorado Springs, Porter. Cation City, 
randegee. Plains around Denver, Coulter. Watson in King’s Rep., 
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vol. 5, 
ALLIUM CERNUUM, Roth.—Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Colorado Springs 
and South Park, Po rier. Cation City, ati ndegee. Hall & a rbour, 547; 
Meehan ; Canby.” mes n the plains near Fairplay, Cou 
ALLIUM RETIC UM, “Bra ser. W atson in Rev. Ki R vol. 
5, p. 486. Coats daphct ‘fibrous; scape 6/-15/ high, subterete; paves 
very narrowly linear, elongated; umbel few-many-flowered, spread- 
ing; stamens and style shorter than the usually acute (3-4 long) 
sepals; capsule crested, crest mostly short; very a able. 
Var. a, (Watson. 5 Lov ow, 6/-8' high; sepals 3" long, white or slightly 
pinkish, acuminate—Hall & Harbour, 545. Wet Mountail Valley, Bran- 
_— degee. Monument Park, Coulter. 
Var ts Taller, 10/15" hi gh, eine bulb less densely 
s Birous; sepals white or pink, 3-4” long, acuminate and strongly cari- 
. hate, sometimes but little exceeding the stamens. aa i & Harbour, 546, 
Vir. 7, (Watson.) Like the last, but the pedicels rather more slender; 
Sepals usually more recurved and the whole lower stem with the bulb 
thickly fibrous-coated.—Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Weston’s 
Pass, Coulter 
Yucca ANGUmELIA, Pursh. Engelm. Rev. in crag Be ep vol. 5, 
p. 496. Stems none or short; t; leaves narrowly linear, cely nar- 
rowed above the bro Me base, rigid, spiny a nes ae “flat abov _ 
convex below, with very slender marginal fibres, 13°-23 long; ; flo 
Spiked; petals broad-ovate, 14/-1}’ long; wie half as long as the 
ovary, sessile, erect; capsule cylindric-ovate, thick, obtuse, short- ‘pointed, 
dry, erect, septicid: ally 3-valved from the apex, the valves at last again 
divided at tip ; seeds very thin, smooth, large, 5-7” in diameter, w ith a 
wide mar gin; albumen not Rnhaatert ’_Plains of the Platte, Coulter ; 
Po Along the_ base i the a ae and called by the Mexicans 
“Soap We ed.” Den ritihe dts ele ¥ Sos é ar Ae; 
JUNCACE®. 
Luzuna cajepuapsoees. DC., var. PARVIFLORA, Ledeb. (LZ. serv rviflora 
SV., var. melanocarpa, Gr.in Manual, p. 536.)\—Hall & Harbour. 555. 
de nt Lincoln, at 12 ,000 feet altitude, and Clear Creek ga Coulter. 
Perianth ¢ crores salver- See 
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y the whole et eth, filiform ; anthers rs erect i oecmiting curv ed, tin. near, 
Sth ) ey the emarginate base, introrse, — a lateral dehiscence. 2 Ovary 
Zeelled, attach 3-celled; ovules about 1% 2rows, I 
-foot-stalks. Style filiform, undivided ; srrjatns dilated into a somew what tri- 
a short, thick subterranean root-stock and fleshy tatiana elongated rootlets ; 
thiek, linear, surrounded ak bese: ipaineaiieans ; flowers white, pe- 
