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ACTAEA SPICATA Linn. 

 Var. AKGUXA Tcrrey. 

 A. arguta Nntt.— Riire in Ctilif.— Ala-ka. 

 Genus AQIIL.E:GIA Tonruefort. 



Columbine: sepals 5, regular, colored 

 and petal-like deciduous. Petals 5, all 

 alike, with a short, spreading lip, and 

 produced backwards into a long tubular 

 spur; stamens numerous, the outer ones 

 long 4 exserted, the inner ones i educed 

 to thin scales; pistils 5; styles s'ender; 

 ovaries several-ovuled, becomiiig point- 

 ed several-seeded follicles in iruit. 

 Glabrous per nnial branching herbs, 

 with 2-3 ternately compound leaves, the 

 leaflets lobed; fl showy, terminating the 

 branches. 



AQUILEGIA TRUNCATA Fisch. & Mey. 

 Genus DELPHIMIM Tournofopt. 



Larkspur: Cal. species are all perennial with 

 showy fl: sepals .5, colored, petaloid, very ir. 

 regular, the Ujiper one prolonged backwards 

 at the base into a long spur: petals 2-1, irreg- 

 ular; stamens many,. pistils 1-5; fr of 1-5 de- 

 hiscent, many seeded follicles. Erect herbs, 

 with palmately-cleft. lobed, or dissected 

 leaves, and racemose fl. 



*BIue (at least not red) fl. 

 DELPHINIUM CONSOLIDA Linn. 

 DELPHINIUM DECORUM Fisch-Mey. 

 Very handsome dark indigo blue fl, js 

 north to Mendocino county. 

 DELPHINIUM PARISHII A. Gray. 

 DELPHINIUM PARRYI A Gray. 

 DELPHINIUM SIMPLEX Dougl. 

 DELPHINIUM VARIEGATUM T. & G. 



**Red flowered. 

 DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE Torr-Gray. 

 J^-2° high or more; Mendocino county 

 DELPHINIUM CARDINALE Hook. 



Few— 15 It. high, stout, nearly glabrous: 

 leaves large, 5-7-lobed nearly to the Ijase. the 

 divisions deeply 3-5-clett with narrow long- 

 acuminate segments: fls. bright scarlet with 

 yellow center, large, produced in showy pan- 

 si. cle Quite hardy. 



Genns P.^EOXIA Linnaeus. 

 P^ONIA CALIFORNICA Nutt 

 Restricted in its distribution (Greene 



light fall of snow (Oreutt W 7:215). With- 

 out much fioral beauty, though the lux- 

 uriant foliage makes it useful in some sit- 

 uations. 



Paeonia Californica Nutt. — The root 

 of the "Pionia" is considered valuable 

 by the natives for the healing of sores 

 on man or beast. 

 PAEONIA BROWNII Dougl. 



loothillsj d b— usually oiaiiibuted as biowni 

 —perhaps running together, da 1, cv •! ■ 8 

 Genua CROSSOSOMA Xnttall. 

 C". BiGKLOVlI W.itsni,. 



Genus AXE.MOXE Linnaeus. 

 A. MULTIFI >A I'C. 



BEBBERIDACEAE. 

 Genus BERBERIS Linnaeus. 

 BERBERIS DICTYOTA Jepson. 

 BERBERIS FREMONTII Torrey. 

 BERBERIS NEVINII A. Gray. 

 BERBERIS PINNATA Lagasca. 

 BERBERIS REPENS lindl. 



SAKItACENIACEAE. 

 DARLINGTOMA CALIFOR.VICA Torrey 



•Calf's head,' a striking pirennial of curious 

 aspect, the only representative of the family in 

 Calif. Of a gieenish yellow hue, bcarnga 



nodding purplii-h fl. One of the Pitcher i)lants, 

 noted for its alluring insects to their denth. 



PAPAVERACEAE. 

 PAPAVER CALIFORNICUM Gray. 

 PAPAVER HETEROPHYLLUM Greene. 

 PAPAVER LEMMONI Greene. 

 PAPAVER HKTEUOPHYLI.UM Ge. 



Genus PLATYSTEMOX Bentliain. 



PLATYSTE.MOiN CRINITUS Ge. 



'Subaeaulesrent, the folijige, scapif'^rm ped- 

 uncles, <t the calyx denselv crinite-hirsute wiih 

 w soft spreading hairs 3 <,r 4 lines long: fl buds 

 exactly globose: corolla an inch broad, tie pet- 

 als deep grceni-h y, maree.scent persistent: 

 stamens innumerable: fllauents widely dila- 

 ted: carpels many, the short torulo.'^e pods 

 scarcely longer ihan the persistent linear stiK- 

 mas.'— Geiitt2 l.S. Kern county 



PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUS Bnth. 

 Slender branching annual, 2-12 in high, vi' 

 lous with spreading hairs: leaves 3-4 in. long' 

 sessile or clasping, broadly linear, obtuse: ped! 

 uncles 3-8 in. long, erect: sepals villous: peta's 

 delicate sulphur yellow, shading to orange iu 

 the center, 3-6 lines long: carpels 6-25, aggr. ga - 

 ted into an oblong head, smooth or somewha'"' 



Garden and Forest ^:356) to Southern and nairy, o-l lines long, beaked with the linear 



persistent stigmas, the 1-seeded divisions a line 

 'ong: seeds smooth. Cal'el 'Cream-cups' by the 

 children Souther \ U<ah, Ariz >na, Mendocln„ 

 county to San hiego. 4 Raja ('alif. fSocorro). 

 PLATYSTEMON DENTICULATUS Gne. 



Lower California. Glabrous but not glau 

 cous, leaves twice or thrice as large as in 

 P. hrownii, of rounded and pedate general 

 outUne. Grows in dry, rocky soil, from a 

 few hundred, to two or three thousand 

 feet altitude, where is is subjected to a 



