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or throe cronate lobes, minutely but densely pubescent beneath, somewhat less so 

 above; stem-leaves single or none, similar to the radical leaves, passing into linear- 

 tripartite bracts, with clammy-pubescent short and dilated petioles; flower canary- 

 yellow; sepals linear-oblong, bluntly acute, 20 to 25 mm. long; petals with spur 35 

 to 40 mm., and blade 6 to 10 mm., in length ; fruit not seen. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1513, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected August 6, 1891, at an altitude of about 3,000 meters in the 

 Sierra Nevada, on a mountain-side north of the White Chief Mine, near Mineral King, 

 Tulare County, California, by Frederick V. Coville. 



This plant is nearly related to A. chryaantha and A. cwrulea, differing in its smaller 

 stature, densely sheathed rootstock, pubescent leaflets, and thicker spurs, and es- 

 pecially in its shorter petal blades. Nuttall's Aquilegia leptalea can not be, either 

 from its locality or description, the same as this plant, but is undoubtedly identical 

 with one of the species mentioned above. No intergrades have appeared. In the 

 vicinity of the White Chief Mine, near Mineral King, there grew, along with this 

 plant, a red-flowered, short-spurred columbine, supposed to be A. truncata, which 

 appeared to hybridize with it. Unfortunately none of these plants were collected. 



Aquilegia truncata Fisch. Mey. & Lalle. Ind. Sem. Petrop. ix. Supp. 8 (1844). 

 Type locality, " in California, prope coloniam Ross [icam]." 



This occurred in Johnson Canon, Panamint Mountains; in the Inyo Mountains 

 (No. 1778); and in the Sierra Nevada, along the East Fork of the Kaweah River (No 

 1371). It was usually found in canons along streams, and although it had a wide 

 range in altitude it was never seen below the Upper Sonoran zone. The Sierran 

 specimens are more or less clammy-pubescent, while the others are entirely glabrous 

 below the inflorescence. 



Delphinium 1 azureum vimineum (Don) in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Card. ser. 2. iv. t. 374 

 (1838), as D. vimineum; Gray, Bot. Gaz. xii. 52 (1887). Type locality, "probably 

 either in Louisiana or Texas." Collected by Drummond. 



Shepherd Canon, Argus Mountains (No. 737). 



Delphinium parishii Gray, Bot. Gaz. xii. 53 (1887). Typo locality, "AgT.a Cali- 

 ente, on the southeastern borders of California." 

 Frazier Mountain (No. 1203). 



Delphinium pauciflorum depauperatum (Nutt.) in Torr. & Gr. Fl. i. 33 (1838) 

 as IK depauperatum; Gray, Bot. Gaz. xii. 54 (1887). Type locality, "in the shade of 

 pine woods in the Blue Mountains of the Oregon." 



Near Mammoth, Mono County (No. 1817). 



Delphinium scaposum Greene, Bot. Gaz. vi. 156 (1881). Type locality, "hill 

 country between the Gila and San Francisco rivers," New Mexico. 



Big Cottonwood Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 2128). The calyx is unusually 

 pubescent. 



Delphinium scoptilorum subalpinum Gray, Bot. Gaz. xii. 52 (1887). Type local- 

 ity not given; range "through the higher mountains of Colorado to those of E. 

 Oregon." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1407), and in the valley of the South Fork 

 of Merced River (No. 1845). The latter specimen is referred here with doubt. 



Actaea arguta Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Fl. i. 35 (1838). Type locality, "woods of thb 

 Oregon and its tributary streams." 

 Near Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1701). 



1 The specimens of Delphinium have been determined by Dr. B. L. Robinson. 



