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D. scopuLORUM (sp. nov.) : puberulum vel glabrum ; caule folioso simplici ; peti- 

 olis basi dilatatis ; foliis circumscriptione orbiculatis 3 - 5-partitis, divisionibus alte 

 2 - 3-fidis, segmentis multilobatis vel laciniatis ; racemo stricto multifloro ; floribus 

 glabriusculis ; calcare sepalis longiore ; petalis inferioribus bifidis intus parce barbu- 

 latis, ungue basi calcarato. — Mountain ravine, near the Mimbres, New Mcxico ; 

 Oct. (842.) — I believe this is the Delphinium exaltatum of Hooker's Flora JBor.- 

 Amer., so far as relates to the plant of Drummond, from the Kocky Mountains ; but 

 it is not the D. exaltatum of the United States. The latter is a tall plant, four or 

 five feet high, with a mostly compound raceme, and much less dissected lobes to the 

 leaves ; the segments or lobes of the upper ones are either 2 - 3-cleft or entire and 

 lanceolate, so as to render very appropriate the name of D. tridactylum, under 

 which it is well described by Michaux (foliis tripartito-palmatis, laciniis lanceolatis 

 parceve divisis). Our present plant is only one or two feet high, including the 

 strict raceme of pretty large indigo-blue flowers; the principal and secondary di- 

 yisions of the leaves are cuneiform in outline, much lobed or cleft ; the lobes of the 

 radical leaves oblong ; of the cauline, linear and short, making the leaf appear la- 

 ciniately multifid. The calyx is minutely pubescent externally, and with the spur 

 from half to three quarters of an inch in length, considerably longer than the se- 

 pals. Carpels 3, erect, nearly glabrous. — D. Californicum, which Hooker {Bot 

 Beechey, p. 317) also refers to D. exaltatum, has less laciniated leaves than the 

 present species, and much smaller, duU-coIored (greenish-ochroleucous) flowers, 

 which are hairy outside, and with the spur not longer tlian the sepals. 



Aquilegia leptocera, Nutt in Jour. Acad. Philad. 7. p. 9. ; Hoolc. Bot Mag. t 

 4407 ; var. flava ; floribus saturate flavis. — Wet places in a ravine, Organ Moun- 

 tains, northeast of El Paso ; April. (1306.) Also gathered by Mr. Thurber in So- 



This appears to be only a 



decidedly yellow-flowered variety of the plant gathered in the Rocky Mountains 

 by Nuttall, Burke, &c., and figured by Hooker in Bot Mag. t 4407, and pre- 

 viously in Bot Beech. t 72, under the name of A. macrantha; — w^hich name 

 should be adopted in case the A. leptoceras of Fischer and Meyer should prove to 

 be of eaiiier date and a good species. With Hooker, we pass by the eariier A. 

 ca^rulea, Torr. ; the flowers being ochroleucous according to Nuttall, or greenish- 

 white, with sliglit tinges of yellow and purplish, in the plant raised by Hooket 



nora, and on the Organ Mountains by Dr. Parry. 



from seeds sent by Mr. Burke. The clear yellow blossoms of the present plant 

 should perhaps distinguish it specifically ; but I find no other points of diff^erence. 

 From the extraordinary size of the flowers and their handsome color, this would 

 be the most showy known Aquilegia, and it w^ould probably be hardy in the North- 



ern United States. 



MENISPERMACEJE. 



CoccuLus Carolinus, DC; Gray., Gen. III. 1. /. 28, §* Fl Wright p. 7. Peb- 

 bly banks of Howard's Creek, Western Texas; July. (1307.) — A variety with 

 the leaves very downy underneath. 



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