CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. No. 8. 



BY MARCUS E. JONES A. M. 



Aquilegia depauperata. i to iJ4 feet high, erect, slender, 

 in dense tufts; root leaves short and small, with petiole 4 to 5 

 inches long, biternate, primary divisions of petiole 1 to 2 inches 

 long, secondary ones very short or almost none and leaflets ap- 

 proximate, leaflets irregularly incised and lobes crenately cut, 

 obovate to rhomboidal, 6 to 9 lines long; stem leaves usually 

 reduced to a broad winged petiole an inch or less long, with 1 

 to 3 sessile leaflets an inch long, 2 to 3 lines wide and entire or 

 rarely with 1 to 3 teeth at the apex, rarely the lowest stem leaf 

 has ordinary leaflets on slender petiolules crowning the broad 

 petiole; lowest node rarely less than 6 inches from the root and 

 bearing a long and slender peduncle (4 to 6 inches long) which 

 is 1 to 2-flowered at the top; the second node has scarcely more 

 than a bract subtending 2 peduncles, one of which is 1 and the 

 other 2 flowered and longer, all the peduncles are long and 

 slender; flowers cream colored, often tinged with blue, 15 

 lines long from stamen tips to nectary, sepals light colored, 

 elliptical, 8 lines long, 2 to 3 lines wide, obtuse, barely green 

 tipped, reflexed, 2 to 3 lines longer than the slender, equally ta- 

 pering, straight spurs whose tips are connivent; claws of petals 

 dilated, rounded, 3 lines wide, deep cream colored. Whole 

 plant perfectly glabrous and leaves glaucous. Flowers nodding. 

 This is near to the low altitude plant referred to by Watson Bot. 

 King v 10 as an alpine form (he having misplaced his labels 

 apparently.) It grows in springs in open places and along 

 streams at 5500 to 7000 feet altitude. The type is my specimen 

 from Provo Canon Utah collected June 8, 1896. To it I refer all 



