Davis: A SYNONYMIC CONSPECTUS OF AOJJILEGIAS. 335 



Slender, 6-15 inches high, glandular-pubescent above at 

 least, several flowered : root-leaves biternate, long-petioled, 

 leaflets lobed and crenate ; stem-leaves few, lower ones short- 

 petioled : flowers blue with yellowish petals, small, about as 

 broad as long ; petals and sepals about equal in length, stamens 

 a little shorter, spurs even shorter and incurved : follicles pu- 

 bescent, equalling the flower in length, ^ inch, becoming 

 erect. May-June. Mts. of Northwest Territory into South 

 Dakota (f). 



A. saximontana P. A. RYDBERG ex Robinson, Syn. Fl. i : 

 I : 43. 1895. 



Stem from a scaly rootstock, less than six inches high : 

 leaves, stems and follicles smooth throughout, otherwise like 

 above. Mts. Colo. (f). 



A. Canadensis LINN. Sp. PI. 533. 1753. 

 A. variegata MOENCH. Meth. 311. 1794. 

 A. elegans SALISB. Prod. 374. 1796. 



Height i2 feet ; primary divisions of petioles of root-leaves 

 1-2 inches, having 3 divisions ; 2 or 3 of the stem leaves petioled, 

 biternate : flowers several on a stem ; sepals yellowish or tinted 

 on the back with red, about ^ inch long, not reflexing ; limb 

 of petals a little shorter, yellowish, truncate ; spur ^ inch long, 

 nearly straight, knobbed at the end, bright red throughout ; 

 stamens much protruding : follicles ^ inch long, with style 

 y^ as long. May July. Stony banks, etc. East of the Rocky 

 Mts. Introduced 1890. Bot. Mag. 246. Loddiges' Bot. Cab. 

 888. Meehan's Mo. 5 : 21. 



Var. flaviflora BRITTON Bull. Torr. Club, 15: 97. 1888. 

 . A.flaviflora TENNEY Am. Nat. I : 388. 1867. 

 A. c&rulea var. flavescens LAWSON Rev. Canad. Ranun. 



75- 1870. 



A. flavescens WATS. Bot. King. Exp. 10. 1871. 

 Flowers a clear yellow. Very pretty. Introduced 1889. 

 Bot. Mag. 6552 B. (as A.formosa var. flavescens]. 

 Var. depauperata n. var. 



A. depauperata JONES Contr. West. Bot. No. 8, i. 1898. 



Stems slender ; leaves and leaflets smaller than the type ; 



flowers also small, cream colored tinged with blue and green. 



June. Along streams, and in Provo Canon, Utah. Collected 



by M. E. Jones, who has the type (f). 



