304 RANUNCULACEiE, 



IJ/^ — 2}4 ft- high; herbage canescent with a short and close, or coarser 

 and spreading pubescence; conspiciionsly leafy at base of stem only, the 

 leaves becoming sparse and small toward the raceme, all rather small, 

 much dissected, the lobes linear, obtuse: raceme dense, elongated: fl. 

 well expanded, deep blue (except in the albino state, then pinkish) : spur 

 stout and straight, about as long as the sepals: follicles erect, pubescent. 

 Var. Hanseni. Very slender, with narrow, elongated and rather lax 

 racemes of flowers one half as large as in the tyi^e, and of less intense 

 blue. — The genuine form of this handsome species is of the Coast Range, 

 where it is noted as our oidy late-flowering species, appearing in June, 

 after the dry season has set in; the lower leaves at time of flowering 

 having mostly died away. The variety in Amador Co., Geo. Hansen. 



4. D. recurratnm, Greene, Pittonia, i. 285 (1889). Stem solitary, 

 stoutish and hollow, 1 — 2 ft. high; herbage cinereous-pubescent through- 

 out, or nearly glabrous, glaucescent: leaves mostly subradical; petiole 

 elongated ; leaf -segments cleft into about 3 linear obtuse lobes : raceme 

 long, occupying more than half the stem, rather open, the lower pedicels 

 more elongated: fl. lavender-color or bluish: sepals linear-oblong, wide- 

 spread, or at length recurved, the blunt spur curved upwards. — In moist 

 and subsaline ground on the plains of the San Joaquin from near Tulare 

 northward to Byron; also in a taller and more leafy variety near Antioch, 

 Chesnut d- Drew; Sacramento Valley, Jepson. Mar. — May. 



5. D. variegatum, T. & G. Fl. i. 32 (1838): I), gmndiflorum, var. 

 variegatmn, H. & A. Bot. Beech. 317 (1840). Pubescent; stem simple, 

 1 — 1}4 ft- high: leaves few, 3-parted into cuneiform segments, these 

 cleft into broad linear lobes: raceme short, lax and few-flowered, the 

 pedicels elongated, ascending: sepals dark blue, obovate-oblong, acutish. 

 % in. long; spur short, straight: lower petals round-obovate, 3-lobed, 

 the upper small, white: ovaries appressed-pubescent. Var. apicnlatum. 

 TJ. apiculatum, Greene, Pitt. i. 285 (1889). Flowers smaller, many, on 

 short suberect pedicels, forming a compact cylindrical raceme : segments 

 of the leaves broader; herbage coarsely and retro rsely pubescent. — The 

 type is of open fields and hills along the seaboard from Monterey to San 

 Luis Obispo. The variety belongs to the interior valley of the State 

 from one to two hundred miles farther north. 



6. D. ornatum. Puberulent; stem simple, stoutish, 1 ft. high: leaves 

 on slender petioles, the blade divided and subdivided into rather few 

 narrowly linear acutish segments: raceme strict: fl. very large, of a 

 rather light blue and white, forming a rather dense short raceme, the 

 pedicels erect : sepals 1 in. long, oblong, obtuse, the inner ones, and also 

 the white petals, with conspicuously crisped margins: ovaries appressed- 

 pubescent. — Related to the preceding, but very distinct in foliage and 

 characters of sepals and petals. It is known only in herbarium specimens 



