526 RANUNCULACEAE 



Refs. — Delphinium parryi Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1SS7), type loe. Sau Bernardino, 

 Tarry, Lemmon, Parish; Syn. Fl. 1': 48 (1895). Var. blochmaxae Jepson. D. blochmanae 

 Greene, Erythea, 1: 247 (1893). D. ornatum Greene, Fl. Fr. 304 (1892), type loe. Niporaa, 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Brewtr 409. Var. maritimum Davidson, Mulil. 4: 35 (1908), type loe. 

 Ballona, Ahrams 1186. 



14. D. parishii Gray. Stems stoiit or somewhat slender, li/o to 2 feet high, 

 one or several from the crown of a stout root, which foi-ks into several deep- 

 seated branches; herbage wholly glabrous or commonly so; leaves % to li/o (or 

 2") inches broad, the basal cut into broadish segments which are again cleft or 

 toothed, the basal similar but often more narrowly divided ; raceme virgate, 

 many-flowered. 5 to 7 inches long; pedicels 4 to 8 lines long; flowers a light but 

 lively sky-bhie; sepals 3 to 5 lines long, the petals % as long; follicles obscure- 

 ly puberulent. sometimes a little distended at the middle, 5 to 6 lines long; 

 seeds as in D. hesperium. 



Sandy washes or mesas, 500 to 7500 feet: throughout the Mohave Desert, 

 north into Inyo Co. and south to Palm Springs in the Colorado Desert. May- 

 June. The primary segments of the lower leaves have a disposition to be 

 divergent, rather straight-margined and of ecpial breadth from base to apex, 

 and cleft only at apex. The flowers have a characteristic and constant shade 

 of blue, which is dift'erent from that of any other of our species. This is the 

 only species known in the Mohave Desert. 



Locs. — Red Hill, near Bishop, Better 8247 ; Pleasant Caiion, Panamint Mts., BaU 4" Chan- 

 dler 6968; Lee Well, Nelson Range. Hall # Chandler 7136; Providence Mts., T. Brandegee; 

 Premonts Peak, Mall ^'- Chandler 6860; Calico Wash, Jepson 5416; Barstow, Jepson 5362; 

 Ord Mt., Jepson 5870, 5930; Victorville, EaU 6201; Antelope Valley, Vavy 2305, 2485; Palm 

 Springs, Parish 6074. 



Var. inopinum Jepson n. var. Stems 3 feet tall, the stems and leaves quite 

 glabrous: seinils very narrow (suboblong), glabrous; follicles glabrous. — - 

 (Caules ped. 3 alti. caules foliaque glabra; sepala perangu.sta (suboblonga), 

 glabra; folliculi glabri.)' — Kern River Canon, 7S00 ft. alt.. Jepson 5012. Re- 

 markable for its high-montane habitat, its very narrow sepals and quite gla- 

 brous pale lavender calyx. 



Refs.— Delphinium parishii Grav, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1887), type loe. AVest Caiion, Palm 

 Springs, Parish. D. colestinnm Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 39: 320 (1912), type loe. s. Utah, 

 Palmer 11; not D. colestinuvi Franch (1894). D. mohavense Parish ined., as to the plant of 

 Barstow (above cited) ; iueludiug also generally the plants of the Mohave Desert. 



15. D. andersonii Gray. Stems several from the base, li/o to 2 feet high ; 

 herbage more or less glaucous, glabrous or nearh^ so, the blades lightly pilose ; 

 leaves thickish, 1 to 21/0 inches broad, deeply and ineisely 2 to 3 times parted 

 into oblong or linear segments, the teeth of the lower leaves mostly obtuse, 

 sometimes acute; raceme rather loose, 7 to 10 inches long; pedicels lo to 1 

 (or II/2) inches long; flowers blue; sepals 5 to 6 lines long, mostly longer than 

 the stout spur, which is shortly curved at the bhuit tip ; follicles glabrous, 5 to 

 7 lines long. 



Adobe soil : western Nevada, and in California on t]ie desert side of the 

 northern Sierra Nevada. It is uncertain whether this little-known species 

 crosses the Sierra axis westward. Plants from the high Sierras could at pres- 

 ent be referred here only with a mark of doubt and are not cited. 



Loes. — (?) Shumway, Lassen Co., Bruce. Kings Canon, Onnsby Co., Nev., C. F. Baker. 

 Refs. — Delphinium axdersonii Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1S87), resting on D. mensiesii 

 Wats. Bot. King, 11 (1871), as to plants of western Nev. 



16. D. uliginosum Curran. Stems erect, nearly naked, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 glabrous or sparingly hispidulose ; leaves glabrous, cuneately fan-shaped, 1 to 

 3 inches long (on petioles as long or longer), the earliest merely cleft or toothed 



