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at apex; raceme dense (like San Joaquin Co. specimens of var. recurvatum) or 

 loose ; flowers blue, like those of the species. Cuyamaca Mts. Perhaps also on 

 Mt. Pinos. 



Var. seditiosum Jepson n. var. Leaves mostly at base, minutely pubescent or 

 canescent, the segments filiform or narrowly linear, more or less revolute. 

 (Folia plerumque basalia, puberulentia vel canescentia. segmentis filiformis 

 vel linearis angustis plus minusve revolutis.) Monterey Co. towards the coast. 

 This variety, with leaves simulating those in forms of D. parryi, may be said to 

 represent a passing over into that species. It is inclined to lose its leaf-blades 

 in a similar manner. 



Locs. Upper San Antonio Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., Jepson 1655 (type) ; Pacific Grove, 

 Tidestrom. 



Eefs. DELPHINIUM HESPERIUM Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1887), Mariposa Co. and Monterey 

 northward to w. Ore.; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 196 (1901). D. simplex Brew. & Wats. Bot. 

 Cal. 1: 10 (1876), not of Dougl. (1829). Var. RECURVATUM Jepson. D. recurvatum Greene, 

 Pitt. 1: 285 (1889), moist subsaline grounds along the San Joaquin River from Antioch 

 to Tulare; collection was made by Greene at Byron, Mar. 24, 1889, and may well be 

 taken as the type; Heller, Muhl. 2: 34 (1905). Var. CUYAMACAE Jepson. D. cuyamacae 

 Abrams, Bull. Torr. Club, 32: 538 (1905), type loc. Cuyamaca Lake, Abrams 3888; the leaves 

 are similar to those of D. andersonii. 



13. D. parryi Gray. Stems commonly simple, 1 to 2% feet high, arising 

 from a short caudex crowning several woody-fibrous roots; herbage minutely 

 puberulent ; leaves twice divided and redivided into narrowly linear lobes, the 

 lobes usually elongated, acute, % to 2^ inches long, and often arcuate-con- 

 torted; upper leaves often pedately 5-divided into filiform lobes; racemes vir- 

 gate. often cylindric, sometimes loose, strict, 4 to 14 inches long; pedicels 

 mostly 4 to 12 lines long or the lower longer; flowers blue or light purplish, 

 rarely white-flowered; sepals 6 to 8 lines long, equaling the spur, 1% to 2 

 times as long as the petals ; follicles puberulent, 5 to 6 lines long ; seeds with a 

 loosely cellular whitish margin to the angles. 



Sandy or loam soil, open ground, Southern California, occurring mainly from 

 the coast to the interior (cismontane) valleys, but reaching the edge of the 

 Colorado Desert in eastern San Diego Co. ; north to the San Carlos Range and 

 southern Sierra Nevada (Tulare Co.). May-June. With the coming on of the 

 rainless season, the blades of the lower leaves are inclined to disjoint roughly 

 in age. leaving the rigid petioles behind. 



Loes. San Timoteo Canon, Jepson; La Presa, Hall 3896; Carrizo Creek, T. Brandegee; Coa- 

 huilla Valley, Jepson 1473; Menifee, Alice King; Winchester, Hall 424; Vanderventer 's, Jep- 

 son 1429; San Jacinto River Canon, Hall 2013; Riverside, Jepson 1221; San Bernardino, 

 Parish 7091; Claremont, Chandler; Kaweah, Eastwood; Waltham Creek, near Alcalde, Jepson 

 2654; San Carlos Creek, San Carlos Range,- Jepson 2736. 



Var. blochmanae Jepson n. comb. Leaf-lobes narrowly linear (y 2 to % line 

 wide) ; flowers large, in a dense short raceme (2y 2 to 4 inches long), the light 

 blue sepals in pleasing contrast to the white petals ; sepals 8 to 11 lines long, 

 with crisped edges; seed unknown. Near the coast, San Luis Obispo Co. 

 Known only at Nipoma, where first collected by W. H. Brewer, Apr. 10, 1861, 

 and by Ida M. Blochman, thirty-two years later, the specimens of the latter 

 exhibiting exactly the distinctive features of the earlier collection. 



Var. maritimum Davidson. Commonly branching; leaf-lobes mostly 1 to 3 

 lines broad, often falcately curving; raceme loose, commonly elongated (4 to 

 15 inches long), the pedicels 1 to 2 inches long; flowers large, the sepals 6 to 11 

 lines long; angles of the seed not winged. Coast region, San Luis Obispo 

 south to Los Angeles Co. and San Diego. Remarkable for its wingless seeds. 



Locs. Santa Margarita Valley, Summers; Oso Flacco, San Luis Obispo, Summers; Santa 

 Monica Canon, Barber 133 ; San Diego, T. Brandegee. 



