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RANUNCULACEAE 



Desert or transmontane species; leaves thickish; stems and petioles glabrous 



or nearly so. 

 Flowers a light but lively blue; leaves glabrous; Death Valley region, 



and Mohave and western Colorado deserts 14. D. parishii. 



Flowers deep-blue; leaves sparingly pubescent; chiefly east side of 



northern Sierra Nevada 15. D. andersonii. 



Leaves cuneately fan-shaped ; stems scape-like ; inner North Coast Ranges . . 16. D. uliginosum. 



1. D. cardinale Hook. SCARLET LARKSPUR. Stem stout, 3 to 6 feet high, 

 leafy ; leaves 3 to 9 inches broad, divided into 5 to 7 narrowly linear or lanceo- 

 late divisions, the divisions usually again lobed or parted; racemes 1/2 to 

 feet long ; pedicels of about the same length as the flowers ; flowers bright scar- 

 let; sepals 6 to 9 lines long, exceeded by the spur; petals mostly yellow, the 

 upper unequally 2-lobed, one lobe truncate, the other very much longer, emar- 

 ginate, and hairy at tip on inside ; lower pair of petals with ovate blade com- 

 monly notched at apex, short-hairy on inside. 



Among shrubs or bushes, mesas, foothills or washes, 500 to 1500 feet : South- 

 ern California, from the coast to the interior (cismontane) valleys, rarely ex- 

 tending to the borders of the Colorado Desert. Lower California. May- 

 June. 



Locs. Little Santa Anita Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Abrams 2647; San Bernardino, Parish; 

 Temescal Wash, Jepson 1572 (associated with Eomneya coulteri) ; Palomar, T. Brandegee ; San 

 Felipe, D. Cleveland. 



Refs. DELPHINIUM CARDINALE Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4887 (1855), based on cult, plants, the 

 seed sent by Wm. Lobb, who collected near Los Angeles; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 30, pi. 2 

 (1859). 



2. D. nudicaule T. & G. RED LARKSPUR. Stems slender, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 few-leaved or quite naked; herbage glabrous or nearly so; leaves somewhat 

 succulent, 3 to 5-parted into broad mostly obtuse divisions, the divisions cleft, 

 lobed or entire; racemes 2 to 12-flowered, loose and open; pedicels 1 to 

 inches long, the lower often much longer than the upper; calyx red, glabrous 

 or very sparsely puberulent; sepals 4 to 6 lines long, the spur nearly one-half 

 longer; petals partly or mostly yellow, the upper narrowly obovate, sharply 

 notched at summit, much larger than the small cleft lower ones; follicles gla- 

 brous, divergent-curving. 



Banks of rivulets and rocky summits of the Coast Ranges from the Santg 

 Lucia Mts. to Marin Co. and western Solano, and northward to Siskiyou Co. 

 Also in the Sierra Nevada, but rare. North to southern Oregon. 



Locs. Coast Ranges: Santa Lucia Mts. (Zoe, 4: 148); Kings Mt., San Mateo Co., C. F. 

 Baker 975; Mt. Day, R. J. Smith; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; Vaca Mts., Jepson; Kelseyville 

 Irwin; Ukiah, Purdy ; Potter Valley, Nettie Purpus; Mt. Hull, Hall 9556; Kneeland Prairit 

 Tracy 2635; Humbug divide, Siskiyou Co., Butler 599. Marysville Buttes, Blankinship. Sier 

 Nevada: Porcupine Flat, Yosemite Park, H. M. Evans; Indian Valley, Plumas Co., E. 

 Austin; Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 



Refs. DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE T. & G. Fl. 1: 33 (1838), type from California, Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 197 (1901). D. lute-urn Heller, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 2: 68 (1903), tyj 

 loc. Bodega Bay, Heller 5256; leaves sparsely short-hairy; flowers pale yellow, pubescent.- 

 Ex. char. 



3. D. purpusii Brandegee. Stems iy 2 to 3 feet high; stems and petiole 

 slightly pubescent, the leaves a little ciliate ; leaves 2 to 3 inches broad, 3-cleft 

 into very broad toothed or incised lobes; racemes sparsely flowered, 4 to 

 inches long ; flowers purplish red or dull pink, disposed to dry lavender ; sepal 

 about 4 lines long, much shorter than the thickish spur ; follicles 7 to 10 lines 

 long. 



Rocky slopes, Greenhorn Range in the extreme southern Sierra Nevada. 

 Apr.-May. Rare. 



Locs. Chaparral, e. slope Greenhorn Range, Hall $ Babcoclc 5073; mouth of Kern Canon, 

 Heller 7655. 



