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spur fully half inch long : follicles oblong, quarter to half inch in length, erect. — D. simplex, 

 Nutt. in herb., not Dougl.i — Low ground, along streams and in open woods, on and near 

 Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, Nuttall, Howell, Henderson, Suksdorf; fl. sum- 

 mer. There is apparently a variety with calyx and lower petals white.- 



§ 3. Phcenicodelphis, Gray, 1. c. 49. Like § 2, but scarlet- and yellow-flow- 

 ered, the calyx mostly bright scarlet and petals wholly or partly yellow : Cali- 

 fornian perennials, glabrous or nearly so ; with branching roots not tubei'ous, 

 and showy flowers loosely racemose. (Germination in the first species with 

 connate petioles elongating and plumule hypogaeous, emerging from base ; in the 

 second species said to be normal.) 



D. nudicaule, Torr. & Gray. Stem a foot or two high, naked or very few-leaved: 

 leaves somewhat succulent, I to 3 inches in diameter, dee])ly 3-.5-cleft or barely parted into 

 obovate or cuneate divisions, these with short olituse lobes : racemes very loose and open ; 

 pedicels 2 to 4 inches long : spur half to two thirds inch long, usually considerably longer 

 than the sepals: follicles elongated-oblong, above spreading at maturity, at first puberulent. 

 — Fl. i. 33, 661 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5819; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 12, with var. 

 ELATiTJS, a taller form. D. sarcophi/lhun, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 31 7.^ — Banks of rivu- 

 lets in the mountains, from Bay of San Francisco * to near the borders of Oregon ; first coll. 

 by Douglas. 



D. cardinale, Hook. Stem a yard high, more branching and with elongated many-flowered 

 raceme : leaves larger, mostly deeply parted into narrow divisions, with long and linear or 

 lanceolate lobes : pedicels an inch or two long; flowers usually larger than in the preceding, 

 deeper red (rarely yellow) : ovaries and oblong follicles glabrous. — Bot. Mag. t. 4887 ; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 30, t. 2 ; Kegel, Gartenfl. vi. t. 208; Fl. Serres, xi. 63, t. 110.5 ; Brew. & 

 Wats. 1. c. D. coccineum, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 62. — Mountains of S. W. California, Los 

 Angeles Co. to the Mex. boundary ; first coll. by Parrij. 



Recently published species of uncertain affinities. 

 D.* recurvatum, Greene. "Perennial, the root a fascicle of fleshv-fibrous thick roots: 

 a foot or two high, strict and simple, or branching and the racemes more lax, glabrous and 

 glaucous, except a sparse pubescence on the lower face of the leaves and the petioles : 

 leaves divided, each part cleft into al)out 3 linear obtuse mucronulate segments, those nearest 

 the root on elongated petioles ; raceme many-flowered, the pedicels ascending, an inch long : 

 flowers lavender-color (changing to pale blue in drying), the linear oblong sepals more than 

 a half inch long, conspicuously recurved, the blunt spur about as long and curved upwards." — 

 Pittonia, i. 285. — "Frequent in moist subsaline grounds along the San Joaquin River, in 

 California, from Antioch to Tulare, flowering in March and April." Descriptions of this 

 and of the two following species are (juoted from the original characterizations. 



D.* Emilias, Greene. " Slender, 2 feet high, from a strong cluster of thick woody-fibrous 

 roots ; stem retrorsely pubescent, some of the hairs hispid, others short and appressed : 

 leaves on long villou.s-hispid petioles, the lamina cleft into about 5 segments which are 

 broadly linear and entire below, but above the middle widened and doubly cleft, the ulti- 

 mate divisions ovoid, acute : racemes about 3, slender-peduncled, rather loose : flowers small, 

 dark blue : sepals obovoid, each with a strong apiculation which is abruptly incurved and 

 covers a manifest round saccate depression ; spur nearly straight, horizontally projecting 

 or slightly ascending : upper petals glal)rous, the lateral ones horizontally spreading over 

 the stamens and very hirsute externally : follicles pubescent, the hairs incurved and ap- 

 pressed." — p]rythea, ii. 120. — " Hillsides, Knights Valley, Sonoma Co., Calif.," Mrs.Einili/ 

 G. Booth, 15 June, 1894. Said to be related to D. variegatum. 



1 Add syn. D. Columbianum, Greene, Erythea, ii. 193. 



" This blue and wliite flowered form is, with scarcely a doubt, the D. leucophoBum, just published 

 by Greene, 1. c. 118. It had been named and distributed as a new species by Suksdorf some time 

 before. 



3 Add syn. D. decorum, var. nudicaule. Hath, 1. c. 9. 



4 Southward to the Santa Lucia Mountains, Eastwood, Vortriede, ace. to Brandegee, Zee, iv. 148. 



