DESCEIPTIONS OF CALIFORNIA GENERA AND SPECIES. 185 



on short ascending pedicels ; spur slender-conical, i. e., short 

 and stout, ascending or nearly horizontal ; lateral petals 

 moderately woolly-hirsute : follicles large, erect, puberulent, 



cuspidately acute. 



A Mexican species, the type being Pringle's n. 1184 from 

 Chihuahua, 27 Sept. 1887. Gray's D. scopulorum--the real 

 type of it— is the nearest relative of the present species, which, 

 however, is remarkably distinct by its finely dissected foliage, 



larkspurs 



Consolida group. 



SOME 



FOENIAN GENEEA AND SPECIES.-IV. 



By J. BuBTT Davy. 



Index seminum Jiorti Academici GoUing. 1837. 4to.5i 

 Lepidostephanus madioides, Bartl.52 char. gen. (ad Com- 

 positas Madieas pertinet ) . Capitnlum multiflorum radiatum, 

 ligulis femin. 3-5 abbreviatis tridentatis, fl. disci tubu- 

 losis hermaphr. Involucrum biseriale, foliolis extenonbus 

 achaenia radii involventibus, interioribus planis submem- 

 branaceis. Kecept. nudum. Achaenia lineari-obovata. com- 

 pressa, 10-costata, radii glabra pappo minutoaunulari disci 

 scabra, pappo biseriali, serie utraque e paleis 5^ membran- 

 aceis oblongisunguiculatis, interna corollam et involucrum 

 aequante, externa duplo breviori.- Herba annua diffusa 

 subviUosa, foliis sparsis linearibus semiamplexicaulibus in- 

 te-ris (2-3-poll. long.) Capitula terminalia solitaria pedun- 

 culata oblonga semiunciam longa. Involucri foliola hneari- 

 oblon-a. Ligulae initio flavae demum fuscae, parum ex 



xii. Litteratur-Bericht pp. 80-83 



^^^^Ltling, Ind. Sem. Eori. GoetU 1837, p. 4; Linn.a xii, Liti-BericM. 

 p. 82 (1838) :=^c/iyracftaerta mollis, bchauer. 



