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142 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
CAREX ALPINA, Vahl.—Hall & Harbour, 618. Chicago Lakes, at 12,000 
feet altitude, Coulter. 
CAREX AUREA, aah —Mount La Plata, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 
Var. ANDROGYNA, Olney. Culms short, more rigid; leaves erect, 
broader ; aisee spike s more closely ag eeregated and denser flowered, the 
upper spike generally androgynous, having more or less fertile flow ers 
at the top.—Colorado, Dudley’s Ranch, E. L. Greene. 
CAREX GEYERI, Boott. (C. ph atlanta ya, Dew., in Bot. Mex. Bound., 
not of Meyer.) Spike simple, androgynous, the top cy lindrie and st am- 
inate, pale, at length bright-rusty, with 1-5-pistillate flowers at the base, 
remote and erect with the rachis; stigmas 3; perigynium oval-trigon- 
ous, produced at base, short- beaked, entire at the’ orifice, whitish- chya- 
line, eee us, smooth, with two prominent nerves, shorter than the 
broad-ovate, obtuse or whieh 
is whitish with a green nerve.—Hall ‘& Har bour, 611, 
MS gee ToRREYI, Tuckerman.—Clear Creek, near Golden City, HZ. L. 
reene 
CAREX RosgsiI, Boott. Spikelets 4-5, pale, few-flowered, the terminal 
one staminate, the rest pistillate, each of 3-6 alternate and distinct flow- 
ers, the upper 3 spikes approximate, the lower pam. exsertly but un- 
equally long-pedunculate; and upper bract surpassing the Te the 
lower sheathed, and all but the lower short- peduncled ; ‘stigmas 3 3; peri- 
gynium oval , stipitate, long beaked, bifid, pubescent, nerv eless, equaling 
the ovate- lanceolate acute or cusp idate scale ; achenium globose-trian- 
gular, obtuse.—Hall & Harbour, 620. 
CAREX CAPILLARIS, L.—Hall & Harbour, 613. 
CAREX a ae Lam.—Ute Pass, 1872, Porter. 
CAREX LANUGINOSA, Mx.—South Park, Candy Ute Pass, Porter. 
Cafion ‘City, ranger Meehan 
CAREX UTRICULATA, Boott. Halt & Harbour, 615; B. H. Smith; 
Brandegee. 
Var. MINOR, Boott. “Swamps on low mountains,” Canby. 
CAREX LONGIROSTRIS, Torr., var. MINOR, Boott. Culm short; spike 
shortened; beak shorter. —Hall & Harbour, 614. 
GRAMINE 4. 
ALOPECURUS a Sm. English Fi.1.p.81. Culm erect, = 
6’-1° high ; palet about equaling the rather acute glumes; awn ex ed 
more than half its ‘length, slightly bent but not twisted; glumes 3ribbed, 
covered on the back with long, dense, white hairs; upper leaf mueh 
coe A omg its inflated sheath.—Hall & Harbour, 683. Gray’s Peak, 
ALOPECURUS ARISTULATUS, Mx.—Hall & Harbour, 682. Monument 
va ~eia Platte River, near Denver, Dr. Smith. Cation City, 
ande 
ate EU NuM, L.—Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith ; Meehan. Twin Lakes, 
Porter. pangre ae Cristo Pass, Brandegee. Sierra Madre Range, at 
11,000 feet altitude, Weston’s Pass and Twin Lakes, Cow 
VILFA CRYPTANDRA, Torr (Sporobolus permane 4 iss. i 9 
plains near Denver, Dr. Smith. Calorade Springs, Porter. Cation "oly, 
Teaniltgee Hall & Harbour, 648. 
