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Kefs. DELPHINIUM PARRYI Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1887), type loc. San Bernardino, 

 Parry, Lemmon, Parish; Syn. Fl. I 1 : 48 (1895). Var. BLOCHMANAE Jepson. D. blochmanae 

 Greene, Erythea, 1: 247 (1893). D. ornatum Greene, Fl. Fr. 304 (1892), type loc. Nipoma, 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Breiver 409. Var. MARITIMUM Davidson, Muhl. 4: 35 (1908), type loc. 

 Ballona, Abrams 1186. 



14. D. parishii Gray. Stems stout or somewhat slender, 1^ to 2 feet high, 

 one or several from the crown of a stout root, which forks into several deep- 

 seated branches; herbage wholly glabrous or commonly so; leaves % to l 1 /^ (or 

 2) inches broad, the basal cut into broadish segments which are again cleft or 

 toothed, the basal similar but often more narrowly divided; raceme virgate, 

 many-flowered, 5 to 7 inches long ; pedicels 4 to 8 lines long ; flowers a light but 

 lively sky-blue ; sepals 3 to 5 lines long, the petals % as long ; follicles obscure- 

 ly puberulent, sometimes a little distended at the middle, 5 to 6 lines long; 

 seeds as in D. hesperium. 



Sandy washes or mesas, 500 to 7500 feet: throughout the Mohave Desert, 

 north into Inyo Co. and south to Palm Springs in the Colorado Desert. May- 

 June. The primary segments of the lower leaves have a disposition to be 

 divergent, rather straight-margined and of equal breadth from base to apex, 

 and cleft only at apex. The flowers have a characteristic and constant shade 

 of blue, which is different from that of any other of our species. This is the 

 only species known in the Mohave Desert. 



LOGS. Bed Hill, near Bishop, Heller 8247; Pleasant Cafion, Panamint Mts., Hall $ Chan- 

 dler 69tf8; Lee Well, Nelson Kange, Hall $ Chandler 7136; Providence Mts., T. Brandegee; 

 Fremonts Peak, Hall $ Chandler 6860; Calico Wash, Jepson 5416; Barstow, Jepson 5362; 

 Ord Ml, Jepson 5870, 5930; Victorville, Hall 6201; Antelope Valley, Davy 2305, 2485; Palm 

 Springs, Parish 6074. 



Var. inopinum Jepson n. var. Stems 3 feet tall, the stems and leaves quite 

 glabrous; sepals very narrow (suboblong), glabrous; follicles glabrous. 

 (Caules ped. 3 alti, caules foliaque glabra; sepala perangusta (suboblonga), 

 glabra; folliculi glabri.) Kern River Canon, 7800 ft. alt., Jepson 5012. Re- 

 markable for its high-montane habitat, its very narrow sepals and quite gla- 

 brous pale lavender calyx. 



Eefs. DELPHINIUM PARISHII Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1887), type loc. West Canon, Palm 

 Springs, Parish. D. colestinum Eydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 39: 320 (1 912 )> *yP e loc - s - Utah, 

 Palmer 11; not D. colestinum Franch (1894). D. mohavense Parish ined., as to the plant of 

 Barstow (above cited) ; including also generally the plants of the Mohave Desert. 



15. D. andersonii Gray. Stems several from the base, iy 2 to 2 feet high; 

 herbage more or less glaucous, glabrous or nearly so, the blades lightly pilose; 

 leaves thickish, 1 to 2y 2 inches broad, deeply and incisely 2 to 3 times parted 

 into oblong or linear segments, the teeth* of the lower leaves mostly obtuse, 

 sometimes acute ; raceme rather loose, 7 to 10 inches long ; pedicels y 2 to 1 

 (or 1%) inches long; flowers blue; sepals 5 to 6 lines long, mostly longer than 

 the stout spur, which is shortly curved at the blunt tip ; follicles glabrous, 5 to 

 7 lines long. 



Adobe soil: western Nevada, and in California on the desert side of the 

 northern Sierra Nevada. It is uncertain whether this little-known species 

 crosses the Sierra axis westward. Plants from the high Sierras could at pres- 

 ent be referred here only with a mark of doubt and are not cited. 



Locs. (?) Shumway, Lassen Co., Bruce. Kings Canon, Ormsby Co., Nev., C. F. BaTcer. 

 Eefs. DELPHINIUM ANDERSONII Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53 (1887), resting on D. mcnziesii 

 Wats. Bot. King, 11 (1871), as to plants of western Nev. 



16. D. uliginosum Curran. Stems erect, nearly naked, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 glabrous or sparingly hispidulose; leaves glabrous, cuneately fan-shaped, 1 to 

 3 inches long (on petioles as long or longer), the earliest merely cleft or toothed 



