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the Synoptical Flora. They are of a deep rich violet, much 
darker than those of J. linariifolia. 
3. L sTENOMERES. Aster stenomeres, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 
xvii. 209 (1882). A far-western and mountain near relative 
of the last. 
New or NOTEWORTHY SPECIES.—X X. 
DzrPHiNIUM Sonner. D. decorum, var. Nevadense, Wats. 
Bot. Calif.i.11. Root-cluster not at all deep-seated but very 
near the surface, composed of several short thick abruptly 
ending branches, but hardly grumose: stems one or several, 
a foot high or more, simple, leafy only below and racemose 
for about half their length: leaves rather fleshy, cut into 
oblong and oblong-linear callous-mucronate segments: whole 
herbage very green and glabrous; the sepals sparsely pubes- 
cent, the ovaries more notably so: raceme rather lax but 
narrow: flowers wholly deep blue, middle-sized, the nearly 
straight spur as long as the breadth of the expanded flower 
and nearly horizontal: pubescent follicles slightly divergent 
above: somewhat obpyramidal seeds very small, winged 
around the quadrate summit, but not on the angles. 
A common plant of northeastern California and adjacent 
mountainous parts of western Nevada; collected by myself 
near Donner Lake, and also far northward in Siskiyou 
county; also by Mrs. Austin at intermediate stations 1n 
Plumas and Lassen counties, and this year in abundance by 
Mr. Sonne above and below Truckee. It was confused by 
Mr. Watson at one time with D. Menziesii, and at another 
time made a variety of D. decorum. Dr. Gray confused it 
with his own D. Andersonii, and again relegated it to D. 
pauciflorum of Oregon. It bears more likeness to D. Nelsoni — 
of Colorado and Wyoming than to any other species, but is 
very distinct from that in the characters of its root an 
