BUTTERCUP FAMILY 523 



Var. luporum Jepson n. comb. Leaves smaller (iy to 2^4 inches broad), 

 very light green, the segments of the divisions more nearly equal ; flowers com- 

 paratively few (5 to 13), in a rather loose raceme; calyx lightly villous- 

 pubescent. High southern Sierra Nevada (Inyo, Fresno and Tulare cos.), 

 10,000 feet. 



Locs. Wildflower Lake, below Kearsarge Pass, Jepson 889; Trail Peak, Jepson 933. 



Kefs DELPHINIUM SCOPULORUM Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 9 (1853), type loc. Mimbres, N. Mex., 

 Wriylit 842. Var. GLAUCUM Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12 : 52 (1887). D. glaucum Wats. Bot. Cal. 2 : 427 

 (1880), substituted for D. scopulorum Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 11 (1876), which rests on 

 specimens from the Big Tree road, Brewer, and Sierra Valley, Lemmon. Var. LUPORUM Jepson. 

 D. luporum Greene, Leaflets, 1: 76 (1904), type loc. Coyote Creek, Tulare Co., Culbertson. 



9. D. californicum T. & G. COAST LARKSPUR. Stems stout, 2y 2 to 7 feet high, 

 sparsely pubescent, many-leaved ; leaves very large, 4 to 6 inches broad, 2 to 4 

 inches long, deeply parted into 3 to 5 deeply incised segments; sinuses of the 

 primary divisions mostly closed in the lower leaves, open in the upper ; racemes 

 very dense, % to iy 2 feet long ; pedicels 4 to 7 lines long, or the lowest some- 

 what more; bractlets very long and slender (4 to 8 lines long) ; flowers rather 

 densely pilose-pubescent, white or whitish, or somewhat purplish inside, never 

 fully expanded ; sepals 3 to 4 lines long, commonly shorter than the spur ; folli- 

 cles oblong, turgid, 4 to 5 lines long, hardly, if at all, diverging; seeds black, 

 wrinkled. 



Low hills near the coast : San Luis Obispo Co. north to Pt. Keyes. 



Locs. Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Monterey, F. P. McLean, Heller 6822; Los Gatos, 

 Heller 7457 (stems partly glabrous and glaucous); hills back of Stanford, C. F. Baker 842; 

 Mission Hills, San Francisco, Michener <$ Bioletti; Berkeley Hills, Greene, Apr. 2, 1883, but 

 probably now extinct; Albion Farm, Drake's Bay, Jepson 555. Also summits of the inner 

 South Coast Eange: Mt. Diablo, ace. Greene (Erythea, 1: 173) ; Cedar Mt., Jepson 6217. 



Eefs. DELPHINIUM CALIFORNICUM T. & G. Fl. 1: 31 (1838), type from California, Doug las; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 195 (1901). 



10. D. hansenii Greene. Stems slender or sometimes very coarse, commonly 

 simple, 114 to 4 feet high ; leaves twice or thrice palmately divided into narrow 

 or oblong lobes ; petioles hispid-hirsute ; flowers pale blue to pink, lavender or 

 white, essentially as in D. hesperium but usually smaller; raceme narrow, most- 

 ly dense, l 1 /^ to 8 inches long ; pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, or the lower sometimes 

 1 to iy* inches long ; seeds densely covered with minute scale-like processes. 



Sierra Nevada foothills, 500 to 3500 feet. "The best type of it is Davy's 1326, 

 Calaveras Co." E. L. G., verbal statement, 1896. It has the aspect of D. hes- 

 perium and shows similar variations. 



Locs. Springville, Tulare Co., Purpus 5049; Milton, Davy 1321; Copperopolis, Davy 1369; 

 Jackson, Hansen 104; Butte Co., Austin fy Bruce. Var. ARCUATUM Greene; racemes more 

 elongated (\'. 2 to 1% feet long), looser; spur strongly curved or straight. Mountain Eanch, 

 Calaveras Co.. Davy 1608; Yosemite Valley, Jepson; Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2758; Green- 

 horn Eange, Hall # BabcocJc 5065. 



Eefs. DELPHINIUM HANSENII Greene, Pitt. 3: 94 (1896). D. liesperium var. hansenii 

 Greene, Fl. Fr. 304 (1892), type loc. Amador Co., Geo. Hansen. Var. ARCUATUM Greene, Pitt. 

 1. c., associated with D. hansenii. Var. Tcernense Davidson, Muhl. 4: 37 (1908), type loc. Mt. 

 Cummings, Tehachapi Mts., Hasse $ Davidson 1703. 



11. D. variegatum T. & G. ROYAL LARKSPUR. Stems erect, simple or branch- 

 ing above. % to iy 2 feet high ; herbage hispidulous with spreading hairs, espe- 

 cially at base ; leaves regularly twice or thrice parted or divided, the segments 

 oblong, mostly obtusish (or those of the upper leaves acute), mucronulate, 

 usually diverging; raceme few (about 1 to 10) -flowered, loose, the pedicels % 

 to li/o" inches long, or the lower ones sometimes much elongated; flowers royal 

 purpfe, rarely whitish lavender; sepals 7 to 12 lines long; spur stoutish, as 

 long as the sepals, the tip often slightly curved; lower petals large, elliptic 

 or roundish, commonly colored like the sepals ; upper petals obliquely oblong. 



