. A biological survey of Colorado. Natural history Colorado; Mammals Colorado; Trees Colorado. NOirril AMERICAN FAUNA. I No. 33. from to 5,500 foot. It usually i^rows to a Iioi to 10 foot, and siiii^lo troos or small (•.lum])s aro scattorod lioro ami there in gulches and on tlu^ warm rooky slo])os in canyons. It was observed in the followini: places: Sloi)os bordering McElmo Valley, between ^[oqui and McElmo; Salt Canyon, the outlet of Sinbad Valley; canyon of Dolores River down to the mouth of West Creek; western (Knver^ l^art of Unaweop Canyon; and lower slopes borderini^ West Paradox
. A biological survey of Colorado. Natural history Colorado; Mammals Colorado; Trees Colorado. NOirril AMERICAN FAUNA. I No. 33. from to 5,500 foot. It usually i^rows to a Iioi to 10 foot, and siiii^lo troos or small (•.lum])s aro scattorod lioro ami there in gulches and on tlu^ warm rooky slo])os in canyons. It was observed in the followini: places: Sloi)os bordering McElmo Valley, between ^[oqui and McElmo; Salt Canyon, the outlet of Sinbad Valley; canyon of Dolores River down to the mouth of West Creek; western (Knver^ l^art of Unaweop Canyon; and lower slopes borderini^ West Paradox A'alloy. Kydberg records this S})ecies from Grand Junction, Doer Ixivor, and between Hotchkiss and Smith Fork. Lycium pallidum. Matrimony Vine. This species is restricted in Colorado, so far as known, to the low arid Vppcv Sonoran stretches of the extreme southwest. I found a scattering growth in the partially open sage and pinyon coun- try between Ba3^eld and Ignacio, La Plata Count}'. It is re- corded by Rydberg from ]\IcElmo Creek and San Juan Valley. Sambucus micro- botrys. Elder. This elderberry is abundant in the Ca- nadian zone forest throughout the mountains between S,000 and 10,500 feet. I have seldom ob- served it in the Tran- sition zone, but occa- Yvj. Z^.— Vaccinium ortophilum on the floor of lodgepole pine forest, SlOnally it OCCUrS Park Range, west of Morth Park, 10,000 feet. noarl V tO timberline. The red berries are usually ripe by tlie middle of August or the first of September. S. microbotrys is abundant on both slopes of the Front Range; at Pearl, Xorth Park; Buffalo Pass, Park Range; summit of Continental Divide; north of Hahns Peak; Arapahoe Pass, Rabbit Ear Mountains; Thomasville; Dillon; St. Elmo; headwaters of Cebolla Creek southeast of Lake City; and Lone Cone. Sambucus melanocarpa. This is a lower ranging species than S. microbotrys, and grows more in the open and chiefly in the Transition zone. I met with it only in. Please note that these images
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