482 
On dark, wooded hillsides; rare: Little Elk Canyon, altitude 1,200 m., June 28; 
Oreville, altitude 1,650 m., July 16 (No. 503). 
Delphinium bicolor Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. i, 33 (1838). 
Variable. In the collection there are three forms, which probably belong here. 
One is4 to6dm, high, with most leaves near the base, more or less glandular-pubescent 
throughout, even to the pods. Custer, altitude 1,650 m., June 8, Aug. 1 (No. 504), 
Another form is like this, but perfectly smooth and with thinner sepals; in some 
specimens the flowers are purplish pink, Runkels, altitude 1,300m., June 30 (No. 505). 
The third is a tall form 7 to 10 din. high, glandular-pubescent, and with broader, 
more pointed divisions to the leaves. It is the same as I). menziesii utahense Wats.! 
Elk Canyon, altitude 1,200 m., June 29 (No. 1205). 
Aconitum fischeri Reich. Monogr. Gen. Acon. i, 22 (1820). . 
The common American form is a tall plant, generally 1 to 1.5m. high, robust, pubes- 
cent, and viscid. The divisions of the leaves in my specimens, as well as in some 
corolla yellowish, sometimes tinged with red or blue. See M. E. Jones, loc. cit. In 
the Wasatch Mountains from Utah to British America. 
b. Style in fruit 5 to 7 mm. long. 
A. BREVISTYLA Hook, Fl, Bor. Amer. i, 24 (1829); Torr. & Gr. FI, i, 30; Walp. 
Rep. i, 51, ete. (Some of the other references in Wats. Bibl. Index, p. 6, may belong 
here, as 4. vulgaris? Richards. App. Frankl. Journ. 740). 
Stem 4 to 10 dm. high, simple, pubescent, or glandular above, especially on the 
peduncles and flowers; root leaves 2-ternate on stout petioles; stem leaves diminish- 
ing upward, often ternate and short-petioled or the upper simple, 3-lobed and 
sessile; pedicels stout and recurved; sepals blue, acute; limb of the petals yellow- 
ish white, longer than the blue, curved spur and the stamens; ovary pubescent; pod 2 to 
2.5 cm. long, reticulate and glandular-pubescent. 
Western Canada, Red River Valley (?), and the Black Hills. Specimens seen: 
Canada, Morley (Albertina), 1885, John Macoun; McKenzie River, Louis Anderson; 
South Dakota, No. 503 of this collection. 
B. Stem 0.5 to 2 dm, high, subcespitose. 
a. Style in fruit about 0.5 cm, long. 
A. SAXIMONTANA Rydberg; Gray, Syn. FI. i, pt. 1, 43 (1895); 4. vulgaris brevistyla 
Gray, Amer, Journ, Sei. ser. 2, xxxiii, 410, and Proc. Acad. Phila. 1863, 57 (1863), name 
only; Porter, Port. & Coult. I'l. Col. 4 (1874), description; 4. brevistyla Coulter, Man. 
Rock. Mount. Reg. 10 (1885); Jones, Zoe, iv, 258 (1893). PL. XIX. 
Stem 1 to 2 dm. high, densely tufted, scarcely exceeding the leaves, perfectly 
smooth; leaves twice-ternate, all on slender petioles thin, the upper a little smaller ; 
leaflets 8 to 15 mm, long, with long petiolules, pedicels slender, upright; sepals 
greenish and obtuse or blue and acute; limb of the petals yellow, longer than the 
blue, curved spur, and the stamens and pistils; ovary smooth; pod 1.5 to 2 cm., 
smooth, 
Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Specimens examined: Colorado, Dr. James (labeled 
A. ewrulea, var, ?); 1861, C.C. Parry, No. 90; 1862, Hall & Harbour, No. 23; 1869, Sco- 
ville; Argentine Pass, 1878, M. E. Jones, No. 875; Gray’s Peak, 1895, P. A. Rydberg and 
C. L. Shear. 
b. Style in fruit about 1 em. long. 
A. JONEsII Parry, Amer. Nat. no, 8, 211. 
Cespitose, 0.5 to 1 dm. high; leaflets about 0.5 em. long, nearly sessile; spur nearly 
straight. 
Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana. 
! Bot. King. Surv. 112 (1871). 
