pjpp,R FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 279 



1. Aquilegia formosa Fisch.; DO. Prod. 1:50. 1824. 

 Aquiliyia colnmlwinn Rydberg, Bull. Torr. (nul), 29: 14.5. 1902. 

 Type locality: " In Kamchatka." 



Range: Alaska to California and Utah. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2G71; Montesano, Heller 3936; Hump- 

 tulips, Lamb 1180; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall; Goat Mountains, xillen 249; 

 S:iverton, Bouch 9; Egbert Springs, Sandberg cfc Leiberg 385; without locality, Vasey 

 in 1889: Fish Lake, Dunn, August 8, 1900; Cold Creek, Cotton 395; Ellcnsburg, Ehner 409, 

 Whited 714; Wenache Mountains, Whited 1299; Gilberts Mining Claim, Whited 45, 153: 

 Horseshoe Basin, Lalce cfc Hull 403: Wilson Creek, LaJce cf; Hull, August, 1892; Wilbur, 

 Henderson, July, 1892: Fresh Lake, MeEay 2S; Loomis, Ehner in 1897: Blue Mountahis, 

 Piper, August, 1890; Lake cfc Hull, July, 1892. 



This species has great altitudinal range occui-ring from sea level up to 1,800 meters alti- 

 tude. It also occurs in eastern Washington in the Upper Sonoran zone. Such plants are 

 usually finely puberulent throughout and perhaps constitute a good subspecies. 



2. Aquilegia flavescens S. Wats. Bot. King. Explor. 10. 1871. 



Type locality: "Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains, Utah; 5-7,000 feet altitude." 



Range: British Columbia to Utah and Montana. 



Specimens examined: Silverton, BoucJc 8; Swauk Creek, Brandegee 614; Wenache 

 Mountains, Elmer 446; Mount Baldy, Cotton 1702; Chewaukum, Whited 2533. 



Zonal distribution: Iludsonian. 



So far as northwestern specimens are concerned ,1. flavescens is a mere subspecies of 

 A.formosa, all intergrades occurring between them. In .some places the two grow together 

 and then merge in all particulars. 



DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Roots fasciculate, elongated, not tuberlike. 



Pedicels usually shorter than the flowers and fiuit: 

 plants about 1 meter high. 



Inflorescence densely short-villous; flowers 



greenish 2. D. riridescens. 



Inflorescence not villous; flowers blue. 



Leaf divisions narrow ; whole plant puberu- 

 lent; flowers bright blue 1. T). scopulorurn s/achydeum. 



Leaf divisions broad, glaucous beneath, 



glabrous; flowers dull blue lb. D. scopulorurn glaucum. 



Pedicels longer than the flowers and fruit: plants 

 30 to 60 cm. high. 



Flowers blue; inflorescence not glandular 3. D. hicolor 



Flowers ochroleucous; inflorescence glandular . 4. />. .rantholrucum. 

 Roots thickened, forming irregular tubers. 



l^edicels ascending or spreading, longer than th(> 

 flowers and fruit. 



Mature follicles widely recurving 5. D. menziesii. 



Mature follicles contiguous or spreading only 

 at the tips. 



Stems tall, leafy; leaf segments cleft into 



narrow lobes; flowers 10 to 20 ^ .. . 6. D. columbianum. 



Stems low, few leaved; leaves pedately 



parted; flowers few 7. D. dcpaupcralum. 



Pedicels erect or ascending, short, the inflorescence 



spike-like 8. D. simplex. 



