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Var. luporum Jepson n. comb. Leaves smaller (li/4 to 214 inches l)road), 

 xQvy li^'lit jir''i'ii- the segments of the divisions more nearlj' equal; flowers eom- 

 jiarativoly few (5 to 13). in a rather loose raceme; cal.vx lightly villous- 

 pubescent. — High southern Sierra Nevada (Inyo, Fresno and Tulare cos.), 

 10,000 feet. 



Locs. — "Wildflower Lake, below Kcarsarge Pass, Jepson 8S9; Trail Peak, Jepson 933. 



Eefs. — Delphinium scopulorum Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 9 (18.53), type loc. Mimbres, N. ilex., 

 Wriuht S42. Var. gl.\ucum Gray. Bot.'Oaz. 12 : .52 (1887). D. f/Zoufiim Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 427 

 (1880), substituted for D. seopuloniin Brew. & Wats. Bot. C'al. 1: 11 (1876), which rests ou 

 specimens from the Big Tree road, Breicer, and 8ierra Valley, Lemmon. Var. luporum Jepson. 

 D. luporum Greene, Leaflets, 1: 76 (1904), type loc. Coyote Creek, Tulare Co., Culbertson. 



9. D. californicum T. & G. Coast Larkspur. Stems stout, 2i/o to 7 feet higli. 

 sparsely pubescent, many-leaved; leaves very large, -4 to 6 inches broad, 2 to 4 

 inches long, deeply parted into 3 to 5 deeply incised segments; sinuses of the 

 primary divisions mostly closed in the lower leaves, open in the upper; racemes 

 very dense, % to 11^ feet long; pedicels 1 to 7 lines long, or the lowest some- 

 what more; braetlets verj' long and slender (4 to 8 lines long) ; flowers rather 

 densely pilose-pubescent, white or whitish, or somewhat purplish inside, never 

 fully expanded; sepals 3 to 4 lines long, commonly shorter than the spur; folli- 

 cles oblong, turgid, 4 to 5 lines long, hardly, if at all, diverging; seeds black, 

 wrinkled. 



Low hills near tlie coast: San Luis Obispo Co. north to Pt. Reyes. 



Locs. — Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Monterey, F. P. McLean, Heller 6822; Los Gatos, 

 Heller 74.57 (stems partly glabrous and glaucous); hills back of Stanford, C. F. Baker 842; 

 Mission Hills, San Francisco, Michener 4' Bioletti; Berkeley Hills, Greene, Apr. 2, 1SS3, but 

 probably now extinct; Albion Farm, Drake's Bay, Jepson 555. Also summits of the inner 

 South Coast Range: Mt. Diablo, ace. Greene (Erythea, 1: 173); Cedar Mt., Jepson 6217. 



Refs. — Delphinium californicum T. & G. Fl. 1: 31 (1838), type from California, I'oM(;!fl.s; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 195 (1901). 



10. D. hansenii Greene. Stems slender or sometimes very coarse, commonly 

 simple, 11/4 to 4 feet high ; leaves twice or thrice palmately divided into narrow 

 or oblong lobes; petioles hispid-hirsute; flowers pale blue to pink, lavender or 

 white, essentially as in D. hesperium but usually smaller; raceme narrow, most- 

 ly dense, Ito to 8 inches long; pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, or the lower sometimes 

 i to It', inches long; seeds densely covered with minute scale-like processes. 



Sierra Nevada foothills, 500 to 3500 feet. "The best type of it is Davy's 1326, 

 Calaveras Co." — E. L. G., verbal statement, 1896. It has the aspect of D. hes- 

 perium and shows similar variations. 



Locs. — Springville, Tulare Co., Piirpus 5049; Jliltou, Davy 1321; Copperopolis, Danj 1369; 

 Jackson, Hansen 104; Butte Co., Austin cj- Bruce. Var. arcuatum Greene; racemes more 

 elongated (% to 1% feet long), looser; spur strongly curved or straight. — ilountain Ranch, 

 Calaveras Co?, Davy 1608; Yosemite Valley, Jepson: Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2758; Green- 

 horn Range, Hall 4' Babeocl: 5065. 



Eefs.— Delphinium hansenii Greene, Pitt. 3: 94 (1896). D. hesperium var. hansenii 

 Greene, Fl. Fr. 304 (1892), type loc. Amador Co., Geo. Hansen. Var. .\kcuatum Greene, Pitt. 

 1. c, associated with D. hansenii. Var. lernense Davidson, Muhl. 4: 37 (1908), type loc. Mt. 

 Cumniings, Tehaehapi Mts., Hasse 4" Davidson 1703. 



11. D. variegatum T. & G. Royal Larkspur. Stems erect, simple or branch- 

 ing above, ^4 to 11,4 feet high; herbage hi.spidulous with spreading hairs, espe- 

 cially at base ; leaves regularly twice or thrice parted or divided, the segments 

 oblong, mostly obtusish (or those of the upper leaves acute), mucronulate, 

 usually diverging; raceme few (about 1 to 10)-flowered. loose, the pedicels 1/2 

 to 11. '.'inches long, or the lower ones sometimes mucli elongated; flowers royal 

 purple, rarely whitish lavender; sepals 7 to 12 lines long; spur stoutisli. as 

 long as the sepals, the tip often slightly curved; lower petals large, elliptii- 

 or roundish, commonly colored like the sepals; upper petals obliciuely oblong. 



