PIPER FLORA OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. 



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1. Aquilegia formosa Fisch.; DC. Prod. 1: 50. 1824. 

 Aquilegia columbiana Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club, 29: 145. 1902. 

 Type locality: "In Kamchatka." 



Range: Alaska to California and Utah. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2671; Montesano, Heller 3936; Hump- 

 tulips, Lamb 1180; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall; Goat Mountains, Allen 249; 

 Silverton, Bouck 9; Egbert Springs, Sandherg <& Leiberg 385; without locality, Vasey 

 in 1889; Fish Lake, Dunn, August 8, 1900; Cold Creek, Cofion 395; EUensburg, Elmer 409, 

 Whited 714; Wenache Mountains, WhUed 1299; Gilberts Mining Claim, WMM 45, 153; 

 Horseshoe Basin, Lake & Hvll 403; Wilson Creek, Lake & Hull, August, 1892; Wilbur, 

 Henderson, July, 1892; Fresh Lake, McKaij 28; Loomis, Elmer in 1897: Blue Mountains, 

 Piper, August, 1896; Lake cfc Hull, July, 1892. 



This species has great altitudinal range occurring from sea level up to 1,800 meters alti- 

 tude. It also occurs in eastern Washington in the Upper Sonoran zone. Such plants are 

 usually finely puberulent throughout and perhaps constitute a good subspecies. 



2. Aquilegia flavescens S. Wats. Bot. King. Explor. 10. 1871. 



Type locality: "Wahsatch and Uintah Mountains, Utah; 5-7,000 feet altitude." 



Range: British Columbia to Utah and Montana. 



Specimens examined: Silverton, Bouck 8; Swauk Creek, Brandegee 614; Wenache 

 Mountains, Elmer 446; Mount Baldy, Cotton 1702; Chewaukum, Whited 2533. 



Z(wal distribution: Hudsonian. 



So far as northwestern specimens are concerned A. JJavescens is a mere subspecies of 

 A. formosa, all intergrades occurring between them. In .some places the two grow together 

 and then merge in all particular.^. 



DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Roots fasciculate, elongated, not tuberlike. 



Pedicels usually shorter than the flowers and fruit; 

 plants about 1 meter high. 



Inflorescence densely short-villous; flowers 



greenish 2. D. viridescens. 



Inflorescence not villous; flowers blue. 



Leaf divisions narrow ; whole plant puberu- 

 lent ; flowers bright blue 1. D. scopulorum stachydeum. 



Leaf divisions broad, glaucous beneath, 



glabrous; flowers dull blue lb. Z). scopulorum glaucum. 



Pedicels longer than the flowers and fruit; plants 

 30 to 60 cm. high. 



Flowers blue; inflorescence not glandular 3. D. bicolor 



Flowers ochroleucous; inflorescence glandular . 4. D. xantholeucum. 

 Roots thickened, forming irregular tubers. 



Pedicels ascending or spreading, longer than the 

 flowers and fruit. 



Mature follicles widely recurving 5. D. menziesii. 



Mature follicles contiguous or spreading only 

 at the tips. 



Stems tall, leafy; leaf segments cleft into 



narrow lobes; flowers 10 to 20 6. D. columbianum. 



Stems low, few leaved; leaves pedately 



parted ; flowers few 7. I), depauperatum. 



Pedicels erect or ascending, short, the inflorescence 



spike-like 8. D. simplex. 



