le D. Nelsoni Greene, Stems slender, laxly erect, 20-40 cm, tall, from 
oe rootstooks, mostly METS a upper parts with recurving 
won~glandular hairs, or mew glabrous, new glandular with spreading hairs or 
with both glandular and sig iene hairs; leaves few, the lower on 
petioles 5-12 cm, long, the blades 4=6 cm, broad, tri-ternate, the linear 
unequal bluntish lobes 1-3 mm, wide, the upper leaves shortly petioled or 
sessile, commonly 3-cleft nearly to the base, the segments entire; 3-lie => 
flowered, the pedicels 1-3 om, long, usually curving upwards, the lowermost 
longest; sepals a rich blue, or bluish-purple, elliptical-oblong or oval, 
12-20 mm, long, 4-8 mm, wides petals bluish or sometimes scene vohsced dais 
or less tinged with blue, the anterior ovate, hale blades 7-10 mm, long, 
narrowed to a claw 4-5 mm, long, cleft 1/3-1/2 their length, the lotes blunt, | 
auricled, with a central tuft of hairs, the posterior 6-8 mm, long, entire, 
the spur 12-20 mm, long, straight or curving near the tip; follicles erect, 
curving outwards, 10-12 mm, long, pubescent or glabrous; seeds longitudinally 
lineolate, with a circular margin on the flattened ADCXe 
. Thin gravelly soil throughout our region but never abundant; poisonous 
to stock but hardly of sufficient abundance to be a serious factor, 
amd 
2e De Burkei Greene. Stems 50-80 cm, tall, usually strict, virgate, from 
~ ae 
a cluster of tuberiferm roots, glabrate below, lightly puberulent with close 
recurved hairs above or even somewhat glandular-villous in the inflorescence 
but not markedly sos lowermost leaves on slender petioles 4-8 cm, long, the 
or 
blades 4-5 cm, broad, triangulargfenshaped, the primary divisions about 5, 
narrow, long-cuneate, deeply divided into several ultimate segments, these 
narrowly lanceolate to sublinear, attenuate and acute, the upper leaves 
a 
(S)—__suecesively reduced to few linear pinnatisect or comb-like divisions, thus 
A 
somewhat unlike the lowermost leaves, all leaves ascending or even appressed 
ate Sas Site ie oe 
