Monographie der Gattung Delphinium. i;,;, 



obtusiusculis ad 20 mm longis, petalis sordide flavidis, superiori- 

 bus apice breviter bifidis fere glabris, eorum calcari calcar petalinum 

 aequante ultra medium tubuloso, inferioribus profunde bifidis parce pilosis, 

 carpellis ternis junioribus dense villosis, maturis erectis 15 mm 

 longis, seminibus subalatis, in faciebus transversirn rugulosis. Floret 

 Octobre. 



Area: Mexico borealis: San Luis Potosi 2000 — 2600 m alt. (Paiuo 

 et Palmer 1878 Bo); ibidem (Schaffner 1879 Be, Ba, V) ; State of Chihua- 

 hua, Sierra Madre (Pringle 1888 Be, V, Pe) ; Mexico austr.: Guanajuata 

 (Duges teste Hewsley) ; Mex. bor., montes San Miguelito (Schaffner teste 

 IIemsley) . 



154. D. viride Watson in Proceed. Amer. Acad. XXIII. 268 (1888), 

 glaucum, radice salis crassa, caule glabro subramoso 60 — 100 cm alto, 

 foliis pubescentibus ad basin fere tripartitis, partibus 3 — 4-fidis, lobis 

 laciniatis, laciniis oblongis acutis, petiolis basi vaginato-dilatatis, bracteis 

 linearibus, bracteolis ternis, sc. binis oppositis apice, tertia 

 medio pedunculo insertis, floribus flavido-viridibus , calcari 

 recto 18 — 20 mm longo, sepalis oblongis 15 mm longis iuxta apicem verru- 

 coso-incrassalis, petalorum inferiorum limbo elliptico bifido, medio 

 sepalis concolore apice sordide-violaceo, petalis super, flavidis 

 violaceo suffusis, carpellis ternis rectis parce pubescentibus, 

 maturis glabris, seminibus alatis subrugosis. Floret Augusto, Sept. 



Area: Mexico: State of Chihuahua , »gravelly bluffs of streams, 

 base of Sierra Madre« (Pringle 1887 Ba) ; »cool slopes, Sierra Madre« 

 (Pringle 1888 Be, U, L, P). 



b. Calcar mediocre 10 — 15 mm longum. 



155. D. exaltatum Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. vol. II. 244 (1789), glabrescens, 

 caule erecto 60 — 120 cm alto satis crasso, petiolis basi haud vel vix 

 dilatatis, foliis inferioribus 3 — 5-partitis, partibus cuneiformibus acute 

 trifidis, foliis superioribus bracteisque infer. tripartitis, partibus lacinia- 

 tis vel integris, laciniis (plerumque lato-) lanceolatis, bracteis 

 super, linearibus, bracteolis binis oppositis, inflorescentia basi ra- 

 mosa, floribus coeruleis, calcari recto vel subcurvato sepala aequante vel 

 superante, sepalis extus pubescentibus ovatis, petalis superioribus sordide 

 flavescentibus fusco-venosis, inferioribus bifidis barbatis, carpellis ternis 

 erectis pubescentibus. Floret a Junio ad Augustum. 



Synonyma: D. tridactylum Mchx. (1803); D. Ulacinum herb. Willd. ; 

 D. elalum var. occidentale Wats. ; D. iirceolalum Jacq.? 



Icon: Miller dict. edit. germ. tb. 293. fig. b. 



Area: America borealis atlantica ; sine loco et lectore (herb. Willd. 

 n. 10317. f. 1, 2 et n. 10320); Pennsylvania: Cove Valley (Puppig 

 1824 Bo, Be, Pe) ; Lower Cove (Pöppig 1824 V); Ohio: (ex herb. A. Gray 



