Crowfoot Family 153 



* Flowers usually blue or purple, at least not red. 



1. D. Parryi Gray. Glabrous or minutely and sparsely puber- 

 ulent; stems erect, 4-8 dm. high, from rather simple or few- 

 fascicled elongated roots, neither fusiform nor tuberiform ; leaves 

 3-5-parted, the divisions and few lobes linear, obtuse; raceme 

 virgate, at length rather loose ; sepals mostly broadly oblong, 

 about 10-15 mm. long, equaling the spur, deep blue, sparsely 

 and minutely puberulent or glabrate ; upper petals white-mar- 

 gined, 7-8 mm. long; follicles about 15 mm. long, apparently 

 glabrous and shining, but minutely puberulent under a lens. 



Frequent in the foothills throughout our region. April-June. 



2. D. variegatum T. & G. Usually hirsute-pubescent below; 

 stems erect and rather rigid, 3-6 dm. high, from rather short and 

 closely fascicled, somewhat fusiform roots; leaves 3-5-parted, the 

 divisions and lobes broadly linear, obtuse ; raceme mostly few- 

 flowered and rather close, sepals roundish-obovate or oval, 15-20 

 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the spur, violet-blue or purple, 

 at least the spur grayish puberulent ; upper petals entirely white 

 or nearly so, about 10 mm. long; follicles about 15 mm. long, 

 grayish puberulent. 



Port Ballona. March-May. 



3. D. decorum F. & M. Glabrous throughout or pedicels 

 slightly puberulent; stem lax, 2-5 dm. high; lowest leaves reni- 

 form or orbicular in outline, 3-5-lobed or 3-5-parted, the divisions 

 round-ovate to cuneate, entire or slightly 2-5-lobed ; upper leaves 

 with narrow divisions ; raceme often paniculate, sparsely flowered ; 

 pedicels slender, spreading ; sepals oval, 10-15 mm. long, equal- 

 ing the spur, blue; follicles 10-12 mrn. long, erect or slightly 

 spreading. 



Frequent in the San Gabriel Mountains, apparently less so in the Santa 

 Monica Mountains and foothills about Los Angeles. 



4. D. decorum patens (Benth.) Gray. More slender than the 

 type, sometimes obscurely and sparsely pubescent; stems erect; 

 raceme closer; pedicels ascending in fruit; sepals 8-10 mm. long. 



Frequent in the foothills of all our mountains. 



** Flowers red. 



5. D. cardinale Hook. Stems about 1 m. high, branching 

 above; leaves deeply parted into narrow divisions, with long 



