BUTTERCUP FAMILY 521 



Refs. DELPHINIUM PURPUSII Brandegee, Bot. Gaz. 27: 444 (1899), type loc. Erskine Creek. 

 Kern Co., Purpus 5015. D. roseum Heller, Muhl. 2: 35 (1905), type Heller 7655. 



4. D. decorum F. & M. Stem lax, 1 to iy 4 (or 2) feet high; herbage gla- 

 brous, or sometimes slightly pubescent, especially the petioles and pedicels; 

 basal leaves thick, often somewhat succulent, roundish in outline, 1 to 2y 2 

 inches broad, mostly shallowly 3 to 5-parted into broadly cuneate or roundish 

 segments; segments entire, or 3-cleft or -lobed, the lobes obtuse, mucronate; 

 upper leaves pedately 3 to 5 or rarely 7-parted into linear-oblong lobes ; racemes 

 mostly many-flowered, 2 to 4 (or 11) inches long; pedicels slender, spreading, 

 ij to 1. or 2 inches long; flowers purple-violet, glabrous or nearly so; sepals 

 oval. 5 to 8 lines long, equaled or excelled by the spur ; mature follicles thickish, 

 oblong, glabrous, 5 to 6 lines long, erect or the tips spreading; seeds sinuous- 

 roughened with short scales. 



Open woods: Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills to Southern Cali- 

 fornia. Variable in leaf outline and lobation, as, also, in branching. 



Locs. Morgan, e. Tehama Co., Hall $ Babcock 4362; Wimmeshaw Creek, w. Tehama Co., 

 Jepson; Calistoga, Jepson; Howell Mt., Tracy 1475; Bolinas, Chesnut $ Drew; Mt. Diablo, 

 Davy 1263; Mt. Day and Arroyo Hondo, Santa Clara Co., E. J. Smith; Loma Prieta, Davy 491; 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 5724; Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 1289; Cuyamaca Mts., T. 

 Brandegee. 



Var. patens Gray. Pedicels glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent; deep 

 blue, magneta, pink, or lavender-w r hite ; racemes mostly strict; flowers smaller 

 (sepals 4 to 5 lines long) ; follicles diverging from below the middle. 



Open places in woods : Sierra Nevada, 3000 to 8300 feet. 



Locs. Calaveras Co., Davy 1507; Yosemite Park, Jepson 4514 (Benson Lake), 3185 (Lake 

 Merced); Hog Ranch Road, Yosemite Park, Hall 8905; Hazel Green, Jepson; Mt. Silliman, 

 Jepson 727; Limekiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2787; Lloyd Mdws., Kern River, Jepson 4898. 



Refs. DELPHINIUM DECORUM F. & M. Ind. Sem. Petrop. 3: 33 (1837), type loc. Bodega 

 Port; Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 668 (1901); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 196 (1901). D. 

 mcnziesii of authors and collectors as to S. F. Bay region plants. Var. racemosum Eastw. 1. c. 

 671 (Marin to San Mateo cos.); var. sonomensis 'Eastw. 1. c., Altruria, Sonoma Co. D. patens 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 296 (1848), type loc. plains near junction of Yuba and Feather rivers, 

 Hartweg 1632. The type of this is exactly D. decorum ace. Greene, Pitt. 3: 15 (1896). Var. 

 PATENS Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54 (1887), type, the small-flowered plant of the middle Sierras. 

 D. gracihitium Greene, Pitt. 3: 15 (1896), "middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada". D. 

 polycladon, Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 669 (1901), type loc. forks of Bubbs Creek, Eastwood, 

 and D. pratetise Eastw. 1. c., type loc. Horse Corral Mdws., Kings Canon trail, Eastwood, appar- 

 ently belong here. D. subnudum Eastw. 1. c. 670, type loc. Squaw Valley, Fresno Co., East- 

 icood; stems pubescent with fine white spreading deflexed hairs. Ex. char. D. greenei Eastw. 

 1. c. 674, type loc. southern Sierra Nevada; Heller, Muhl. 2: 34 (1905) ; peduncles and pedicels 

 glandular-hairy. This is a merely glandular form, represented by spins, from Limekiln 

 Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2787. 



5. D. menziesii DC. Stem arising from a cluster of connected roundish or 

 cylindric tubers. 6 to 11 inches high, slender, often flexuous, usually branching 

 at the base, the branches often strongly divergent ; herbage quite glabrous, or 

 sometimes pubescent; leaves twice palmately divided and cleft into linear or 

 oblong, mostly obtusish, lobes; racemes 2y 2 to 6 inches long, mostly few (2 to 

 several) -flowered; pedicels spreading, y 2 to 1 inch long, the lower usually 

 elongated, 1 to V/ 2 inches long; flowers blue, sparingly pubescent, with short 

 scattered hairs; sepals 4 to 8 lines long, % to as long as the slender spur; folli- 

 cles hirsutulose or nearly glabrous, 7 to 9 lines long, curving and strongly 

 divergent from very base at maturity, rarely suberect; seeds narrowly sub- 

 conic, rotately cellular-margined at the truncate end, and a little at the pointed 

 end, rarely on the sides. 



Northern Mendocino Co. to Siskiyou Co., 1000 to 6500 feet. North to British 

 Columbia and Montana. Our Calif ornian material represents a rather definite 

 type which is rather too much unlike, in appearance, apparently authentic 



