MONTANA BOTANY NOTES 29 



Peak (Miss Norton). Sperry Glacier (Umbach). McDonald Lake, Alta, Com- 

 mon. Lake McDonald to St. Mary's Lake, mostly alpine. iMissoula. 



Aquilegia formosa Fisc'her, is reported from all over the state but all 

 forms so far seen art' the above with tinged petals or sepals. 



Aquilegia saximontana Rydberg. Gunsight Pass. This is nearer A. vul- 

 garis, with glandular stems and pubescent fruit. 



Aquilegia Jonesii Parry. Gunsight Pass. 



Actaea spicata var. rubra Ait. Hort. Kew 2 221. A rubra (Ait) Willd. 

 This includes the var, arguta which cannot be separated by any valuable 

 character. A. eburnea Rydberg. Berries w^hen red are indifferently spheri- 

 cal to oblong in the same spike which is oblong in fruit. Occasional in deep 

 forests and along creeks in wet and springy places. Huckleberry spring, 

 Schultze's cabin, the bog on the road to MacDougal Peak, Yellow Bay at 

 creek, the Hemlocks, McDonald Peak, Hot Springs. Middle Temperate life 

 zine. A form answering to var, arguta with white berries grows with the 

 other but differs in no other way. These berries are almost always round, 

 not so large, spikes elongating in fruit, leaves usually more cleft. MacDou- 

 gal Peak, in the Mission Mountains, Common from Lake McDonald to St. 

 Mary's Lake, Summit. 



Aconitum Columbianum Nutt. Libby (Bailey). 



Aconitum Columbianum var. lutescens. (Nelson Bot. Gaz., 41 54 1906, as 

 species). Flowers constantly cream-colored. Alta, Lambert Valley. Not seen 

 in the Sperry Glacier region. 



Delphinium pauciflorum Nutt. MacDougal Peak, McDonald Lake Mission 

 Mts., Blackfoot Glacier. Alpine. 



Papaver nudicaule L. 507. Ours is the var. arcticum Elkan Mon. Pap. 

 16 (1839). Stanton Lake, Williams. Alpine. The published description of 

 this species is not good. Stems from a densely leaved and few branched 

 crown, and this from a slender and branching root. Leaves all radical, 5 cm. 

 long, with blade 15-25 mm. long, broadly ovate, pinnately lobed with oblong- 

 obovate apiculate and veiny lobes 2-5mm. long, thick, tips all with yellow 

 needles and some on the face. Peduncles erect from a decumbent or curved 

 base, 10 cm. long, slender, with stiff and yellow needles (not dark). Pods 

 obovate-oval, more densely setose as well as the elliptical sepals, pods 15 mm. 

 long. 



Corydalis aurea Willd. Alta, McDonald Lake in the Mission Mts., Bigfork, 

 (also In- Elrod and Miss Norton). 



Draba alpina I. Sperry Glacier. 



Draba glacialis Adams. Sperry Glacier, Gunsight Pass. 



Draba nemorosa L. Evaro, Missoula (Elrod). 



Draba stenoloba Ledebour. MacDougal Peak, Sperry Glacier. 



Draba crassifolia Graham. MacDougal Peak, Blackfoot and Sperry Glacier. 



Lesquerella alpina Wat. Garrison. Probably also at Alta. 



Lepidium apetalum ^Villd. Fort Missoula, Ravalli, Ronan, Alta. Mis- 

 soula (Elrod). 



Lepidium medium Greene. Common in fields. 



Thiaspi alpestre L. Alta. Material gathered at Missoula by Elrod cor- 

 responds well with Watson's T. Californicum except that the radical leaves 

 are wider and the pedicels indifferently spreading. 



Thiaspi arvense L. Alta. 



Capsella Bursa-pastoris (L) Medic. Common around dwellings. 



Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz. Bigfork, Ronan. 



Brassica arvensis (L.) BSP. A frequent weed in fields throughout the 

 region. 



Sisymbrium incisum Eng. var. Hartwegianum B. & W. Garrison. 



Sisymbrium incisum var. filipes Gray. Evaro, Alta. 



Sisymbrium canescens Nutt. Missoula (Elrod and MacDougal); Poison 

 (I'nibach). 



Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. St. Ignatius Mission. 



