NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 985 
DELPHINIUM RECURVATUM. Perennial, the root a fascicle 
of fleshy-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 
about 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. 
Frequent in moist subsaline grounds along the San Joaquin 
River, in California, from Antioch to Tulare, flowering in 
March and April. 
DELPHINIUM APICULATUM. Root as in the preceding : a foot 
or two high, strict, simple, few-leaved, roughish throughout 
with a short spreading or retrorse pubescence : leaves 
repeatedly subdivided into linear segments: raceme dense, 
4—6 inches long, flowers dark blue; sepals oval, ? inch long, 
with a conspicuous cusp and (in the fresh flowers) with a red " 
spot below it. 
Plains of the San Joaquin near Byron Springs, abundant, 
flowering in March and April. A very beautiful species 
whose nearest relative is D. variegatum, from which it differs 
in its strict and many-flowered racemes of smaller flowers, a 
more slender habit, ete. Its habitat is also different, the 
other being a plant of the sea coast. 
CorYLEDON LINEARIS. Light green and not farinose, only 
the inflorescence somewhat glaucous : stem very short, cæspi- 
tous-branching : leaves numerous, crowded, erect or somewhat 
spreading, 2 or 3 inches long, linear or nearly so, acuminate, 
3—6 lines wide and half as thick: flowering branches less 
than a foot high, rather slender, bearing ovate bracts and 2 
or 3 simple racemes : floral bracts equalling or exceeding the 
pedicels: sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3 lines long: corolla 
Issued April 16, 1569. 
