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ueipninium Burkei. Stems one or eevetal, a f oot Mgh 



or more, erect, not slender, trom a manifestly TOoay-fibro„s 

 root, leafy at or near the base only : foliage and lower part of 

 Btem seeming glabrous, tlioagh somewliat puberulent under 

 a lens ; upper part of stem and the infloreseence clothed «th 

 a Bho^t villous-hirsute pubescence : leaves 2 inches broad 



deeply parted into many linear and oblong-lmear cblusish 

 segments, the texture rather fleshy ; raceme rather long and 



narrow, Ihe pedicels being equal and quite erect . sepals deep 

 HuTp^bescent exteriorly, .pur rather long, usually blnnt 

 near y straight and horizontal ; petals conspicuously white, or 



perhaps ochroleucous : ovaries densely appressed-viUous : 

 follicles unknown. i< a„.ta r^mtrv " 



Plant of Burke's collection, from the Snake Co™*^' 

 probab y in the Slate of Idaho; the specimens referred by Asa 

 Grt to his D. Andersonii, perhaps for an assumed geograph- 

 M reason, for the two species are not near of km ; and the 



Snake Kiv« Country is exceedingly unlike the region which 



DAnd^Jscnii inhabits, of which fact Dr. Gray was unaware. 



m camporum 



Eoot a fascicle of few coarse 



ratte t shy fllres" rt^mTtiut, very erect, seldom more than 

 ato high remarkably velvety-pubescent from the base up 



to the inlorescence : leaves mostly near the base °t *e stem 



and numerous, many-cleft into linear lobes, and P«^ "^ » 

 fine appressed pubescence : raceme long, strict, «'»P'« ^"^ 

 usually dense, the pedicels short, very erect even applied to 



tterachis throughout : flowers white, or with a tinge of flesh- 



'Ir : spur ereor, either parallel with the rachis or curving 



slightly away from it : petals rather heavily pilose. 



'\ pfant ofVsandy plains '^^^^^^^^.^ 



whole Kocky Mountain Eange, aPP''^" '?, , ..^ 



Mexico 



America to mexicu uu« ^. .^^ ^^ American 



marked species of Larkspur m the \\iioie x^uit 



florayet hitherto unrecognized as a species. I have known 



ft we'll for about twenty years, but have been unwilling to 



htok that a plant of such pronounced characters had escaped 



a pec fi name and diagnosis ; though its habitat .s peculiar. 



