146 Rydberg : Studies on the 



the base, 4-5 cm. long : follicles without the styles, about 3 cm. 

 long and 5 mm. wide, strongly reticulate and pubescent, strongly 

 curved above. 



This species is nearest related to A. cluysantJia with which it 

 has been confused, but differs in the smaller flowers, blunter 

 sepals, smaller and bluer segments of the leaves and the more 

 curved follicles. It grows at an altitude of 1500-3000 m. 



Colorado: Cafion City, 1873, ^- ^- Greene (type in herb. 

 Columbia University) ; Colorado Springs, 1893, De Alton Saun- 

 ders ; Grand Cafion of the Arkansas, 1873, Brandegee ; Bear 

 Creek Canon, 1892, C. S. Sheldon. 



Texas: West Texas, i^^^, Neallev. 



Arizona: Mt. Humphrey, 1897, R. E. Kiinze. 



Aquilegia Eastwoodiae 



Aquilegia ecalcarata Eastwood, Zoe, 2 : 226. 1891. Not 

 Hortul. ; Steudel. 1841. 



This has been regarded as a spurless form of A. niicrantha 

 Eastw., but the form of the terminal segments of the leaves is dif- 

 ferent from any American species, being rhombic in outline and 

 acute. 



Aquilegia oreophila 



Aquilegia eocnilea alpina A. Nelson,' First Rep. Fl. Wyo. y^. 

 1896. Not A. alpina L. 1853 ; Aquilegia coerulea vSiX. flavesccns 

 Jones, Cont. West. Bot. 8:2.1 898. Not A.flavescens Wats. 1 87 1 . 



This is evidently what Jones regards as A. fiavescens Wats., 

 but is not Watson's species, for he describes the spur as being 

 curved. Specimens of both numbers cited by Watson, viz. 75 and 

 j(5, are in the Columbia University herbarium and these as well as 

 the plant cultivated under the name A. jlavescens at Harvard have 

 curved spurs and can not be referred as a variety to A. coerulea. 

 Therefore, I can not see why Mr. Jones' A. depauperata should 

 not pass into synonomy, being the same as the true A. jlavescens. 

 The flowers of A. oreophila resemble most those of A. pubescens 

 Coville, but the habit is different and nearer A. coerulea. 



Delphinium alpestre 



A low cespitose perennial : stems several, about i dm. high^ 

 puberulent and viscid above, densely leafy ; leaves digitately di- 



