672 Eastwood : Californian Species of Delphinium 



Botany of the Region of San Francisco Bay," seems to be without 

 a name. Professor Greene suggests, in a letter recently received, 

 that it is what he named/), apkulatum, Pittonia, I. 285. This can 



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scarcely be the case for the character of the root is quite different. 

 According to his description, the root is similar to that of D. 

 recurvatum which he describes on the same page as having a 

 fascicle of fleshy-fibrous thick roots. D. apiciilatiim must be, as 

 he himself there suggests, a near relative of D. variegatnm T. & 

 G. of which he subsequently made it a variety. (Fl. Francis. 304.) 



D. decorum is more like D. pate 



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It is not clear to the writer what difference there is between D 



patens and D 



3:15.)* Until the 



types are better known and the differences between these species 

 clearly defined it seems best to consider these two species as the 

 same, under the oldest name, recognizing the fact that they do not 



D. patens 



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Specimens have been examined from the following localities 

 represented by specimens in the Herbarium of the California 

 Academy of Sciences : 



Santa Inez Mountains, T. S. Brandegee (no. 91 5). 



El Dorado, Katherine Curran (no. 914). 



* Delphinium gracilentum. Slender, usually 2 feet high or more, from a 



grumous-tuberiform root, sparsely leafy, pale green and glaucescent, appearing glabrous, 

 a lens revealing short stiff white hairs at the base of the stem, and again upon the small 

 bracts of the inflorescence : radical leaves few, long-peduncled, 2 or 3 inches broad, 

 deeply about 5 -parted, the lobes mostly oval or oblong, obtuse and entire ; lower caulme 

 more cuneately cleft, and the segments 3-lobed : racemes long, slender and lax : flowers 

 small, deep blue (pink in the frequent albino state), the stoutish slightly curved spur 

 little exceeding the oblong sepals : follicles slightly divergent 



Middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada, California. It is the D. patent of my 

 Flora Franciscana, and I formerly supposed it to be the plant which Bentham so named ; 

 but having seen the specimens on which D. patens was founded, 1 am certain that that 

 is only D. decorum : not even a variety of that species. In the " D. patens " of my 

 Flora I included a plant which is of a " deeper green, and glandular pubescent." This, 

 I think, will prove to be another distinct species of the Sierra Nevada, though T am not 

 yet able to assign characters enough to warrant its publication. Its root is still un- 

 known to me. Pittonia, 3 : 15. Greene. 



f " Delphinium patens, sp. n., glabrum v. pubgrulum, ramosum, petiolis basi dilata- 

 tis, foliis profunde 3-5 lobis, lobis inferiorum obovatis obtusis subtrilobis supenorum 

 subintegris angustis, racemis laxis, petalis sepalis brevioribus, inferioribus bifidis barba- 

 tis, ungue glabriuscula ecalcarato, calcare curvulo sepalis aequilongo. — Flores us J->- 

 azurei similes sed racemi laxi pedicellis patentibus, et folia multo minus dissecta, lob 

 latis obtusis. — In valle Sacramento." PI. Hartweg. 296 2 . Benth. 



