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Nelson : New Plants from Wyoming 



long 



stems I, or sometimes 2, from each crown, glabrous below, 



cm. 



minutely glandular pubescent above, slender, erect, 10-15 

 long, fcw-lcaved, nodes not conspicuously swollen, the lower in- 

 ternodes equaled by the leaves, the upper several times longer than 



the leaves : cyme loose, primary pedicels 



o- 



mm., secondary 



5-10 mm. long: sepals narrowly ovate, acute, nerveless, scarious, 

 obtusely keeled by the broad, green midrib : petals oblong, ob- 

 tuse, about 5 nnn. long, 2 mm. broad : capsule hardly equaling 

 the sepals, about as long as the divaricate styles, ovate, splitting 

 Into ovate, obtuse valves : seeds suborbicular. 



Probably nearest to A. capillaris Poir from which its stouter 

 habits, its acuminate sepals and its subequal sepals and petals 

 most obviously separate it. 



It occurred along the loose shale of the higher bluffs over- 

 looking Bear River, and did not seem to be at all abundant. 

 Type specimen in Herb. University of Wyoming, no. 4640, Coke- 



J 



Aconitum ramosum 



Stem 3-5 



dm. high 



simple below, more or less branched 



above, the branches ascending, nearly or quite glabrous below, in- 

 creasingly finely glandular-pubescent upwards : leaves suborbic- 

 ular in outline, 5-8 cm. in diameter, 3-, or more rarely, 4-parted, 

 the divisions deeply 2- or 3-cleft, these incised, the segments ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute : flowers medium size, sparsely short pubes- 

 cent ; hood 12-16 mm. long, obovate (exclusive of the beak) tap- 

 ering but slightly toward the obtusish base, beak short, porrect, 

 sub-acute ; lateral sepals as broad as long, unequilateral ; lower 



sepals oblong or broadly spatulate, a/ as long as the lateral and 



from 



as Wide ; follicles cylindric-oblong, 1 5-20 mm. 

 long, reticulately veined, nearly glabrous. 



When this plant was secured its strikingly De/z/nmum-Uke 

 leaves and some other characters led, in the absence of any speci- 



dclpJiinifoliKui 



under that 



name. During a recent visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden, an 

 examination of the specimens in the Herbarium shows that A. dcl- 

 phinifolium,t\\^t plant of the far Northwest, is a very different thing 

 from this. This is strict and has fewer, larger leaves with fewer 

 and longer segments, a very different pubescence as well as some 

 differences In flower and fruit characters. 



Secured but once, no. 2549, in open grassy ground in a park 



