24 RANUNCULACE. DELPHINIUM. 
Bh ACONITUM. 
three-fourths inch long; upper petals pale yellow and white and copiously 
blue-veined: follicles glabrous, or when young puberulent,sometimes quite 
erect, but usually recurving above. Dry ground, mountains of eastern 
Oregon and Washington to Utah; Colorado and British Columbia. 
D. depauperatum Nutt.1. c. Stem very slender, simple, 1-3 leaved: 
leaves scarcely an inch in diameter, glabrous. the lower one flabelliform 
or reniform : upper part of the stem and carpels minutely villous: raceme 
1-7-flowered; flowers deep blue, upper petals yellowish: follicles 5-6 lines’ 
long, erect. Mountains of eastern Oregon and Neyada. ; 
D. trolliifolium Gray Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 275. Glabrous through- 
out or the inflorescence sparingly villous, tall and stout, 2-5 feet high: 
leaves large, long petioled, 5-7 lobed, the lobes laciniately cleft and 
toothed with acuminate segments: flowers large, in a loose raceme: sepals 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 lines long, sparingly vil!ous: follicles 
glabrous, 6-8 lines long by two lines broad: seeds turbinate with a narrow 
rim at the top. Common along streams from British Columbfa to Califor- 
nia. Known as ‘Poison Larkspur.”’ 
D. occidentale Watson. Glabrous or densely pubescent above, 4-6 
feet high: leaves deeply 3-5 cleft, the divisions broadly cuneate some- 
what s-lobed and sparingly gash-toothed, the teeth narrowing abruptly to 
a callous point: flowers small ina many-flowered sparingly branched pan- 
icle: sepals spatulate acuminate attached by -a broad base, 6 lines long or 
more, follicles glabrous or sometimes pubescent: seeds light colored and 
spongy: Subalpine in damp soil, from the Blue Mountains of Oregon to 
Nevada. 
D. scopulorum Gray Pl. Wright, ii, 9. Glabrous below or throughout : 
stems 1-6 feet high from a fascicle of thick roots; leaves numerous, mostly 
orbicular in outline, 2-8 inches in diameter, 5-7 parted, the lower into 
cuneate and the upper into narrower cleft and laciniate divisions: petio- 
les, except the lowest, hardly dilated at base: bracts and bractlets mainly 
filiform: racemes many flowered; flowers blue varying to white or pink on 
- short erect pedicels; sepals about half an inch long, about equaling the 
spur: lower petals deeply notched and with the whitish upper ones but lit- 
tle shorter than the oblong sepals: follicles not over half inch long, short- 
oblong, erect: seeds with a loose cellular coat. Mountains of eastern 
Washington (Sandberg No. 921) to the Rocky Mountains and New Mexico 
D. glauecum Watson Bot. Cal. ii, 427. Tall and stout, glabrous and 
more or less glaucous: leaves large, laciniately lobed and toothed, the 
lobes mostly acuminate, the upper leaves sparingly lobed or entire and 
narrowly lanceolate: flowers pale blueynumerous in a narrow raceme,upon 
slender and rather short pedicels, the somewhat minutely tomentose sep- 
als rather narrow, about 6 lines long or less, follicles glabrous. From 
Yakima county. Washington, to California and north to the Yukon river, 
D. Burkei Greene Eryth. ii. 183. Stems one or several, a_ foot 
high or more, erect, not slender, from a manifestly woody-fibrous 
root, leafy at or near the base only: foliage and lower part of stem seem- 
ing glabrous, though somewhat puberulent under a lens; upper part of 
stem and the inflorescence clot hed with a short villous-hirsute pubescence : 
leaves 2 inches broad, deeply parted into many linear and oblong-linear 
obtusish segments, the textur® rather fleshy: raceme rather long and nar- 
row, the pedicels being equal and quite erect: sepals deep blue, pubescent 
exteriorly, spur rather long, usually blunt, nearly straight and horizontal; 
petals conspicuously white, or perhaps ochroleucous: ovaries densely-ap- 
pressed-villous: follicles unknown. ‘‘Snake Country” Idaho. Burke. 
* * Flowers scarlet. 
D. nudicaule T. & G. 1. c. Smooth or slightly villous, stems a foot or 
two high; leaves mostly near the base, 1-3 inches in diameter, 3-5 lobed, 
