34 Wooron: THE LARKSPURS OF New MExIco 
lower leaves with elongated petioles, 10 cm. long or less, almost 
erect, their bases wing-margined and clasping the stem, upper 
leaves on petioles about 1 cm. long, blades of all the leaves circu- 
lar in outline, 3 cm. or less in diameter, twice or thrice parted, the 
ultimate segments linear-oblong and divergent, with acute callus- 
tipped apices; inflorescence short, strict or slightly panicled, 
pedicels 1 cm. long or less; bracts of the inflorescence linear- 
lanceolate, half as long as the pedicels and adnate to them fora 
short distance at the bases, floral bracts minute, attached just be- 
low the receptacle ; flowers small, 10 to 15 mm. long, bright blue, 
crowded, spur slightly longer than the sepals, bent downward at 
the tip, horizontal or ascending ; sepals all broadly elliptic, obtuse, 
the uppermost shortest and broadest, mostly without saccate cal- 
losities at the tips ; upper petals expanded at the tip, entire, blue, 
white on the lower edge, limb of the lower petals oblong, entire 
or retuse, not bifid, claw rather broad, spur at the base I mm. 
long ; mature fruit not seen, young follicles appressed-pubescent 
like the other parts. 
Type collected by E. O. Wooton in the mountains 15 miles 
southeast of Patterson, New Mexico, near Culbertson’s Ranch, 
in pine forest, Aug. 16, 1900, at an altitude of about 2300 m. 
The crowded racemes of small blue flowers suggest a relation- 
ship to D. strictum A. Nels., but our plant is even smaller, has a 
different kind of pubescence, and its leaves, clustered about the | 
base of the stem, are more like those of D. Geyerd Greene, though © 
the segments are narrower and stiffer; the flowers are smaller and 
lighter-colored than those of D. Geyeri and the stem less scape- 
like. It probably is more nearly related to D. camporum Greene, — 
though the flowers are very different. 
3. DELPHINIUM scAPOsUM Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 156. 1881. 
Type locality: “ Hill country between the Gila and San Fran- 
cisco rivers,” New Mexico. 
I have never collected this plant in New Mexico, though I have 
been in the region above mentioned on two separate occasions. 
The following plants probably belong to the species : 
Coolidge, New Mexico, June 20, 1887, Zracy (U.S. Nat. Herb., 
sheet 20. 219,220). | 
Chusca Mts., New Mexico, June 24, 1883, Marsh (U. S. Nat. | 
Herb., sheet xo. 2007). 
