BUTTERCUP FAMILY 527 



at apex, the later incisely parted ; racemes strict, the pedicels subequal ; flowers 

 blue or occasionally pink ; sepals 3 to 6 lines long, the spur as long or longer ; 

 petals deeply notched, ciliate, and with a tuft of hairs on the upper side ; folli- 

 cles slender, puberulent, 4 to 6 lines long; seeds densely covered with minute 

 blunt processes, some short, some longer and branched. 



Wet places, Napa Co. north through Lake Co. to western Colusa Co. 



Locs. Howell Mt., Tracy 354 ; Butt 's Canon, Napa Co., K. Brandegee. 



Kef. DELPHINIUM ULIGINOSUM Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 151 (1885), type loc. very wet 

 swamps, Epperson's (foothills of western Colusa Co., near Lake Co. boundary), Mary K. 

 Curran. 



8. ACONITUML. ACONITE. 



Tall perennial herbs with palmately lobed leaves. Flowers showy, irregular. 

 Sepals 5, the upper one larger and hooded or helmet-like. Upper petals 2, re- 

 duced to slender claws terminating in a nectary and covered by the helmet- 

 like sepal, the 3 lower ones minute rudiments or wanting. Stamens numerous. 

 Pistils 3 to 5, many-ovuled, becoming follicles in fruit. Species about 60, 

 northern hemisphere. (Ancient Greek name.) 



1. A. columbianum Nutt. WESTERN MONKSHOOD. Stems 1% to 3 feet high, 

 arising from thick roots ; leaves roundish in outline, 2 to 3 inches broad, parted 

 or divided into 5 cuneate toothed or incised lobes; raceme loose, sometimes 

 paniculate, viscid-pubescent; flowers blue, rarely white; hooded sepal 6 to 7 

 lines long. 



Wet meadows and streamlet borders, 4000 to 8000 feet: Sierra Nevada, 

 north to Modoc Co. and west to Trinity Co. Arizona to British Columbia. July. 



Locs. Garfield Forest, Sequoia Park, Jepson 4663; Soda Creek, Tulare Co., Purpus 5275; 

 Middle Fork Kings River, Henrietta M. Eliot ; Pine Eidge, Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler ; Eagle 

 Peak, Yosemite, Chesnut $ Drew; Donner Lake, Heller 6917; Plumas Co., Platt; Morgan, 

 Tehama Co., Hall $ Babcock 4413; Ft. Bidwell, Manning; Mt. Shasta, Geo. B. Grant; Shackel- 

 ford Creek, w. Siskiyou, Butler 1774; Salmon Mts., Hall 8635 (flowers white). 



Kef. ACONITUM COLUMBIANUM Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1: 34 (1838), type loc. Columbia River 

 below Walla Walla, Nuttall. A. fisclieri Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 12 (1876), not Reichenb. 



9. ANEMONE L. WIND-FLOWER. 



Perennial herbs, the stems and basal leaves from a rootstock. Stem leaves 

 none except an involucral whorl of 3 near to or distant from the solitary or 

 umbellate flowers. Sepals 5 to 8, petal-like, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens 

 numerous. Achenes numerous, the style short or developing into a long 

 plumose tail. Seed suspended. Species about 90, all continents. (Greek 

 anemos, wind, the flowers disturbed by the wind.) 



Leaves 2 to 3 times finely dissected into small segments; stems from the crown of a thick root. 



Styles densely hairy, becoming plumose tails in fruit 1. A. occidentalis. 



Styles not hairy. 



Sepals elliptic or oval, 7 to 10 lines long; stems from the crown of a taproot 



2. A. baldensis. 



Sepals oblong, 4 lines long; stems from a tuber 3. A. tuberosa. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, not dissected; stems from horizontal rootstocks. 



InvolucraL leaves sessile ; rootstocks filiform 4. A. deltoidea. 



Involucral leaves petioled; rootstocks thickened 5. A. quinque folia. 



A. Styles densely soft-hairy ; achenes with long 



plumose tails. Sub genus PULSATILLA. 



1. A. occidentalis Wats. Stems from the crown of a thick vertical root, 4 

 to 15 inches high, 1-flowered; stems, petioles and midribs woolly-pubescent, 

 mostly glabrate, except at base of bracts and of stems ; leaves divided into 5 

 petioled divisions, the divisions 2 or 3 times divided and cleft ; involucral leaves 

 sessile by a broad base, similar to the basal leaves; sepals 5 (or 6), white "or 



