BUTTERCUP FAMILY 521 



Eefs.— Delphixium purpusii Brandegee. Bnt. Gaz. 27: 444 (1S99), type loc. Erskine Creek, 

 Kern Co., Purpus 5015. B. roseum Heller, Muhl. 2: 35 (1905), type Heller 7655. 



4. D. decorum F. & :\r. Stem lax. 1 to I14 (or 2) feet high; herbage gla- 

 brous, or soiiietiines slightly pubescent, espeeially the petioles and pedicels; 

 basal leaves thick, often somewhat succulent, roundish in outline. 1 to 21^ 

 inches broad, mostly shallowly 3 to 5-parted into broadly cuneate or roundish 

 segments; segments entire, or 3-eleft or -lobed, the lobes obtuse, mucronate; 

 upper leaves pedately 3 to 5 or rarely 7-parted into linear-oblong lobes; racemes 

 mostly many-flowered, 2 to 4 (or 11) inches long; pedicels slender, spreading, 

 14 to 1 or 2 inches long: flowers purple-violet, glabrous or nearly so; sepals 

 oval, 5 to 8 lines long, equaled or excelled 1)y the spur; mature follicles thickish, 

 ol)long. glabrous, 5 to 6 lines long, erect or the tips spreading; seeds sinuous- 

 roughened with short scales. 



Open woods: Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills to Southern Cali- 

 fornia. Variable in leaf outline and lobation, as, also, in branching. 



Logs. — Morgan, e. Tehama Co., Hall 4' Bahcocl- 4362 ; Wimmeshaw Creek, w. Tehama Co., 

 Jepson; Calistoga, Jepson; Howell Mt., Tracy 1475; Bolinas, Chesnut <^ Brew; Mt. Diablo, 

 Davit 1263; Mt. Day and Arroyo Hondo, Santa Clara Co., B. J. Smith; Loma Prieta, Davy 491; 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 5724; Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 12S9; Cuyamaca Mts., T. 

 Brandegee. 



Yar. patens Gray. Pedicels glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent ; deep 

 blue, magneta, pink, or lavender-white; racemes mostly strict: flowers smaller 

 (sepals 4 to 5 lines long) ; follicles diverging from below the middle. 



Open places in woods: Sierra Nevada, 3()()0 to 8300 feet. 



Locs. — Calaveras Co., Davy 1507; Yosemite Park, Jepson 4514 (Benson Lake), 3185 (Lake 

 Merced); Hog Eanch Road, Yosemite Park, Hall 8905; Hazel Green, Jepson; Mt. Silliman, 

 Jepson 727; Limekiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2787; Lloyd Mdws., Kern River, Jepson 4898. 



Refs. — Delphinium decorum F. & M. Ind. Sem. Petrop. 3: 33 (1837), type loc. Bodega. 

 Port; Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 668 (1901); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 196 (1901). D. 

 menziesii of authors and collectors as to S. F. Bay region plants. Var. racemosum Eastw. 1. c. 

 671 (Marin to San Mateo cos.); var. sonomensis Eastw. 1. c, Altruria, Sonoma Co. D. patens 

 Beuth. PI. Hartw. 296 (1848), type loc. plains near junction of Yuba and Feather rivers, 

 Hartwcg 1632. — The type of this is exactly D. decorum ace. Greene, Pitt. 3: 15 (1896). Var. 

 PATENS Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54 (1887), type, the small-flowered plant of the middle Sierras. 

 D. yraeilenluvi Greene, Pitt. 3: 15 (1896), "middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada". D. 

 polycladon. EasUw Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 669 (1901), type loc. forks of Bubbs Creek, Eastieood, 

 and D. pratense Eastw. 1. c, type loc. Horse Corral Mdws., Kings Caiion trail, Eastwood, appar- 

 ently belong here. D. siibnndum Eastw. 1. e. 670, t.ype loc. Squaw Valley, Fresno Co., Bast- 

 wood ; stems pubescent with fine white spreading deflexed hairs. — Ex. char. D. greenei Eastw. 

 1. c. 674, type loc. southern Sierra Nevada; Heller, Muhl. 2: 34 (1905) ; peduncles and pedicels, 

 glandular-hairy. — This is a merely glandular form, represented by spms. from Limekiln 

 Creek, Tulare Co.. Jepson 2787. 



5. D. menziesii DC. Stem arising from a cluster of connected roundish or 

 cylindric tubers. 6 to 11 inches high, slender, often flexuous, usually branching 

 at the base, the branches often strongly divergent ; herbage cpiite glabrous, or 

 sometimes pubescent : leaves twice palmately divided and cleft into linear or 

 oblong, mostly obtusish, lobes; racemes 2% to 6 inches long, mostly few (2 to 

 several )- flowered ; pedicels spreading, i/o to 1 inch long, the lower usually 

 elongated, 1 to IY2 inches long; flowers blue, sparingly pubescent, with short 

 scattered hairs; sepals 4 to 8 lines long, •% to as long as the slender spur; folli- 

 cles hirsutulose or nearly glabrous, 7 to 9 lines long, curving and strongly 

 divergent from very base at maturity, rarel.y suberect ; seeds narrowly sub- 

 conic, rotately cellular-margined at the truncate end, and a little at the pointed 

 end, rarely on the sides. 



Northern ^lendocino Co. to Siskiyou Co.. 1000 to ()r)Ofl feet. Ncn-th to British 

 Columbia and I\Iontana. Our Californian nuiterial represents a rather detinite 

 type which is rather too much unlike, in appearance, apparently authentic 



