138 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
3-14” wide, mostly auricled at base; heads 3-10 flowered, paler, rather 
’ numerous and panicled; flowers a little smaller, the inner petals shorter 
- tg acute, the outer ones equaling the long-mucronate capsule. 
Hall & Harbour, 564; Canby. 
COMMELYNACEZ. 
oe Naito % pe ie River, Dr. Bell. 
TRADESCANTIA VIRG L.— he plains, Dr. Smith; B. H. 
Smith. ang the Platte, “Ooulter; Redjield 
CYPERACE ZX. 
RUS INFLExvs, Muhl.—Near nev gig Dr. Smith. Canon Git, 
~ Bronte coat = Porter; capes 
CyPERuUs ScH 1, Torr.— Low Mot untains,” Hall & Hordbur, 
584. Wet Waihteka Valley, Brandegee. Colorado Springs, Porter; Red- 
Jield. 
HEMICARPHA SUBSQUARROSA, Nees—Wet Mountain Valley, Bran- _ 
de egee. e $x 
HimocHanis OLIVACEA, Torr. —Greeley, Greene. 
ELEOCHARIS PALUSTRIS, R. Br.—Near Denver, nt Smith. 
ELEOCHARIS COMPRESSA, Sulliv.—Pueblo, Green oe 
dae 5 sige ren ACICULARIS, R. Br.—Near Denver, ee the Platte, D 
mit 
ome PAUCIFLORUS, Lightfoot—Hall & Harbour, 582. 
SCIRPUS CAISPITOSUS, i‘. —Hall & Harbour, 583 ; Phe me 
_._- SCIRPUS PUNGENS, Vahl.—Near Denver, Dr. Smith. 
ScIRPUS VALIDUS, Vahl.—Near Denver, Dr. Smith. © Caiion City, | 
Brandegee. : 
ScIRPUS MARITIMUS, L.—Wet Mountain Valley, Dente 
SCIRPUS SYLVATICUS, L.—Caiion ows Brandegee. 
SCIRPUS ATROVIRENS, Muhl.—Hal 
ERIOPHORUM POLYSTACHYON, L ae roofer Valley, Br andegee. 
_ FMeRIstYLis LAxA, Vahl.—Hall & Harbour, 581. 4 
~  Brywna! spicata, Schrad. (Kobresia scirpina, Willd.) Czspitose; 
stems numerous, 1° high, slei nder, striate-angled ; leaves filiform; § spike 
1’ long, somewhat clav ate.—South Pa rk, Hall & Harbour, 598 aud 599. 
AREX preps Meyer. Spike elles. oblong, staminate at top; 
eo a 30 ; perigynium pias stipitate, ventricose, shining, 
ually perc into a beak, metimes few-toothed, nerveless, 
spreading or at length elexed, Bidty colbpea, with an entire obliquely- 
cut mouth, about equaling the dark- -brown, oblong, obtuse scale; the 
lowest: scale rarely subleafy ; ; achenium unequally 3-sided. Roots creep- 
ing; culms 6/-12/ fence” all & Har arbour, 609. 
_~ , CAREx Pyrenarca, Wabl. Spike solitary, densely flowered, 
inate at top, elliptic, canis alia ; stigmas 3, rarely 2; peri igyulnms ns 
form or lanceolate, gradually attenuate, long-stipitate, nerveless, com: 
; ips pin elei®. 
1 Eryna, Schrad. a 2-flowered, covered by a bract, pig Ag its mar- 
eo « consis Ue base. Hy gporsncu, sete none. Pistillate flowe spikelets be- 
low, style 1, stigmas 3. Nut ec cine: short-mueronate by the ‘persistent hase “4 
style. Upper flower staminate, rt pediceled. Stamens Koch Fl. Germ 4 
