Volume 4 . No. 3 
MUHLENBERGIA LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
A. A. HELLER, Editor BOTANICAL 
Atel SIF EES GARDEN. 
Los Gatos, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 3, 1908 
THE DELPHINII OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
By A. DAVIDSON 
Botanical writers and collectors have credited southern Cal- 
ifornia as possessing D. Andersoni, D. Parryt, D. hesperium, 
D. decorum patens, D. cardinale, and D. glaucum. 
In a study of the first five of these I have examined all the 
material available in the herbaria of Stanford University and 
the University of California, and the private herbarium of Mr. 
S. B. Parish, and my thanks are gratefully accorded for these 
favors. In these collections under the name of D. Anderson 
two widely different plants are listed, one from the north (Mo- 
doc county, etc.), the other from the San Bernardino range in 
the south. The former seems typical enough, and deserving a 
more minute description; the latter that has passed under this 
name is D. recurvatum Greene. The northern plants before 
me are rather small of stem, and though glabrous and glaucous 
in the main, have long spurs markedly villous, and a dense pu- 
bescence at the apex of the pedicel, follicles narrow, oblong, 
with divergent tips. 
Our southern plant has stout, fistulous stems, leaves pubes- 
cent on the lower side; spurs glabrous or only microscopically 
puberulent and about equalling the sepals in length. The fruit 
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