Delphinium. RANUNCULACE^. 47 



(varying to white), small, externally as also the inflorescence canescently puberulent. — 

 Kew. ii. 244 ; DC. Syst. i. 357 ; Turr. & Gray, 1. c. 31, excl. syu. iu part ; Gray, PI. Wright. 

 ii. 9. D. Carolinianuni, Walt. Car. 155. D. tridactijlum, Michx. Fl. i. 314. {D. urceolatum, 

 Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 101, & Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1791, of unknown source, is probably not of this 

 species ? ) — Border of woods, mountains of Alabama and Carolina to Kentucky, Ohio and 

 Minnesota ; fl. late summer. 



D. Californicum, Torr. & Gray. Stem stout, 2 to 8 feet high : leaves of rounded and 

 somewhat reniform outline; lower ample (4 to 7 inches iu diameter), deeply cleft into broad 

 cuneate and laciniate divisions ; upper with narrower divisions and lanceolate lobes : raceme 

 dense . flowers sordid wliitish with tinges of blue, externally villous : sejmls and horizontal 

 spur each about four lines long. — Fl. i. 31 ; Benth. PI. Hartw. 296; Brew. & Wats. Bot. 

 Calif, i. 11. D. exultatum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 317, not Ait.i — California, on dry 

 hills from Monterey to Mendocino Co. ; first coll. by Douglas. 



D. seopulorum, Gray. Glabrous below or throughout : stem 2 to 6 feet (or in subalpine 

 forms a foot) high : leaves mostly of orbicular outline and 2 or 3 inches iu diameter, 5-7-parted, 

 the lower into cuneate and upper into narrower cleft and laciniate divisions; petioles except 

 lowest hardly dilated at base : bracts and bractlets mainly filiform : flowers blue or purplish, 

 rarely white, glabrous or cauescent-puberulent outside : sepals and spur each about half 

 inch long : follicles veiny. — Polymorphous species or group, analogue of the equally 

 polymorphous or complex D. elatuin, L., and D. hybridum, Willd., of the Old World (which 

 have seed-coat transversely rugulose or lamellose) ; the tjqjical or first published form afoot 

 to a yard high, with upper or even all the leaves dissected into linear or lanceolate segments 

 and lobes ; inflorescence often panicled below, the axis, pedicels, and even the whole ujjper 

 part of the stem minutely cinereous-puberulent, varying to glabrous : lower petals deeply 

 notched, and with the whitish upper ones little shorter than the oblong sepals : ovaries and 

 follicles commonly minutely pubescent. — PI. Wright, ii. 9, & Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 

 242. D. exaltatum, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 25, at least in part. D. azureum, Gray, PI. Fendl. 

 5, as to no. 10.'^ — Moist ground, mountains of New Mexico and Arizona through the Rocky 

 Mountains and those of Utah and Nevada to the plains of the Saskatchewan. Passes 

 freely into 



Var. stach^^deum, Gray. A form with narrow divisions to the leaves, strict stem 

 (3 to 7 feet high) cinereous-puberulent throughout, as also the long and dense spiciform 

 raceme and the outside of the calyx. — Bot. Gaz. xii. 52. — Interior of Oregon (foot of the 

 Blue Mountains, &c., Cusick) to New Mexico and Arizona, Pringle, &c. 



Var. glaucum, Gray, 1. c. Like the broader-leaved forms, sometimes glaucous, even 

 the pedicels glabrous or only obscurely glandular-puberulent : lower petals commonly cleft 

 to the middle : ovaries and follicles glabrous. — D. fjlaucnni, Wats. Bot Calif, ii. 427 

 (D. seopulorum, Brew. & Wats. ibid. i. 11).'' — Sierra Nevada, California, at about 6,000 

 iQQt, Brewr, Lemmon ; also apparently same in San Bernardino Mountains at 10,000 feet, 

 W. G. Wright; Yakima Co., Washington, Brandegee ; and north to the Yukon River, 

 Kennicott. 



Var. subalpinum, Gray, 1. c. A foot to a yard or more high, with shorter raceme 

 of larger and deeper-colored flowers : inflorescence and commonly whole^ upper part of the 

 stem pubescent or villous with spreading slightly viscid hairs : petals well surpassed by the 

 over half inch long acute sepals, the lower moderately notched at apex : follicles glabrous : 

 leaves with mostly broad divisions and lobes. — D. elatum, Gray, Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, xxxiii. 

 242, not L., &c. D. occidenUde, Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 428.* — Mountains of Colorado and New 

 Mexico, at 9,000-11 ,000 feet, first coll. by Parry. The analogue of D. alpinum, Walds. & Kit. 

 By less pubescent forms, of lower elevation and compound racemes (D. elatum, var.? occi- 

 dentale, AVats. Bot. King Exp. II), of Wasatch Mountains, Utah to Oregon, Nevius, Cusick, 

 Henderson, connects with the preceding forms. 



1 Add syn. 2). ex(dtatum, var. Californicum, Huth, Delph.-Art. N. A. 11. 



2 Add syn. B. exaltatum, var. scojmloruiii, Huth, 1. c. 12. 



3 Add syn. D. exaltatum, var. glaucum, Huth, 1. c. 11. 



4 Z>. Barbeyi, Hath (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1. 335, D. exaltatum, var. Barbeyi, Huth, Delph.-Art. 

 N. A. 11) is one of several forms which Dr. Gray included in his var. subalpinum. 



