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to the stems; flowers numerous, rather Close~set, in a narrow spiciform 
raceme 15-20 om, long, the pedicels erect; sepals ovate to oblong, 6-J0 
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mme long, obtuse, usually bright blue one race pale bluq) rather uniformly 
puberulent, the spur 8-12 mm. long, slender, nearly horizontals petals 
purplish, ovate, the blade of anterior petals thinly villous with a few 
long hairs; follicles 8-12 mm, long, erect, Glandular-pubescent, seeds 1,0 
-1,5 mm, long, dark straw-color, the 3 angles narrowly margined. (D. simplex 
Dougl.,-preceeupied—mame). 
Open grassy places, Thatuna Hills, Epling & Houck 9200. The type of x, 
s =, by Douglas, is the pale-blue-flowered races Plants with 
puberulent to wholly glabrous lower stems and leaves, the raceme densely 
QALZ 
crowded, 30-45-flowered is subsp. distichiflorum (Hooke) Ewan, the type 
being Geyer 420 from high plains of Spokane and Nez Perces ts apparently 
infrequent, 
Se D. cyanoreios Piper. Stems erect, 40-100 cm, tall, more or less strict, 
from heavy tuberiform roots, usually more or less velvety-glandular with 
shining yellow hairs throughout but especially abundant in the rachis; leaves 
on petioles 6-10 (or 15) om, long, the blades cuneate-rounded in outline, 
$<5 cme broad, pinnatifid into about 3 primary divisions, these subdivided 
into crowded ascending rather broad obtuse lobes, each lobe commonly tipped 
with a whitish mucro, the uppermost leaves differing but little and unreduced, 
thus all the leaves essentially alike and strongly ascendings flowers many, 
rather loosely arranged in the elongated raceme, this rarely pope fae 
branching at the base, 10-20 (or 35) cme long, the pedicels erect; sepals 
a evenly aba 8-14 mm, long, acute, dark blue, pubescent with 
ee venautes hairs, new short recur¥ing crisp hairs, or with a patch of hairs 
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at tip, the spur 12-18 mme long, stout, attenuate; petals whitish, venose, 
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