280 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



1. Delphinium scopvilorum stachydeum A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12:52. 1887. 

 Type ix)cality: "Interior of Oregon." Collected by Cusick. 



Range: Washington to New Mexico and Arizona. 

 Specimens examined: Wenache Mountains, Whiied 1264. 



la. Delphinium scopulorum subalpinum A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: .'52. 1887. 

 Type locality: " Headwaters of Clear Creek, Colorado." 

 Range: Blue Mountains to Colorado and New Mexico. 

 Specimens examined: Blue Mountains, Horner 267; Pij)er 2442. 

 Zonal distribution: Hudsonian. 



lb. Delphinium scopulorum glaucum .\. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: ^2. 1887. 



Delphinium glauciim Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 427. 188(). 



Type ixxjality: "Big Tree Road," California. Collected by Brewer. 



Range: Alaska to California. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Pijter, August, 189.'); Elmer 2677; Mount 

 Rainier, Piper, Augu.st, 1888; Nisqually Valley, Allen 248; Yakima County, Bramiegee 615. 



Zonal distribution: Hudsonian. 



2. Delphinium viridescens Loilxirg, l*r«M'. Biol. So<'. Wa.sh. 11: .'^9. 1897. 

 Type locality: Near Pesha-stin, Washington. 



Range: Chelan County, Washington. 



Specimens examined: Wenache Valley, Sandherg <k Leiberg .W-S; licavenworth, Whited 

 2556. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



3. Delphinium bicolor Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 10. 1834. 

 Delphinium glareosum Greene, Pittonia 3: 2.57. 1896. 



Delphinium bicolor glareoxum Davis, Minn. Bot. Studies, 2: 4,39. 1900. 



Type locality: "On dry hills, near Flathead or Sailish River, toward the south .sourc(^s 

 of the Columbia." Collected by Wyeth. 



Range: British Columbia to Utah and Montana. 



Specimens examined: Goat Mountain, Allen 146; Olympic Mountains, Piper, August, 

 1895; Elmer 2665 ; Flett 81 . 



4. Delphinium xantholeucum sp. nov. 



Perennial from thick elongate black roots 5 to 10 cm. long; stems 60 to 80 cm. high, 

 glabrous and glaucous up to the inflorescence; leaf blades orbicular in outline, thickish, 

 glabrous and glaucous, 2 to 8 cm. broad, parted nearly to the base into 5 cuneate segments, 

 these deeply 2 to 3-cleft into linear lobes; petioles glabrous and glaucous, 2 to 3 times as 

 long as the blades; bracts narrowly linear, or the lowest cuneate and 2 or 3-cleft; inflores- 

 cence viscid-putescent, very loose, 15 to 40 cm. long; pedicels curved, spreading, the lower 

 5 cm. or more long; flowers pale yellow, the sepals greenish and viscid pubescent outside; 

 sepals and petals 10 to 12 mm. long, the stout straight spur 15 mm. long; lateral petals 

 white-bearded; filaments blue-veined; follicles 3, straight, erect, reticulate-veined, hairy, 

 10 tp 15 mm. long; seeds dark-colored, the angles produced into white scarious wings. 



Related to D. bicolor Nutt., but a larger plant, with constantly pale yellowish flowers, 

 and the whole inflorescence viscid-pubescent even to the pods. 



Collected by Kirk Whited at Wenache, Wash., May 14, 1899, in flower; May 24, 1899, in 

 fruit; also by G. R. Vasey in 1889, no locality indicated. 



6. Delphinium menziesii DC. Syst. 1 : 355. 1818. 



Delphinium pauperculum Greene, Pittonia 1 : 284. 1889. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Nova-Georgia." Collected by Menzies. 



Range: British Columbia to California and Idaho. 



Specimens examined: Whidby Island, Gardner 9; Drayton Harbor, Lyall, May 3, 1858; 

 Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, LyaU in 1859; Kickitat River, Fleit 1269; Falcon Valley, 



