436 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



the bracts, blue or violet or white; petals 2, united: follicle i, 

 glabrous; seeds with broken, transverse ridges. June to Aug. 

 Europe. Baxter Brit. Bot. 4. t. 297. Rev. Hort. 1893, p. 228 

 (var. ornatum candelabrum}. 



3. D. nudicaule TORR. & GRAY, Fl. i : 33. 1838. 



D. sarcophyllum HOOK. & ARN. Bot. Beech. 317. 1841. 

 D. decorum var. nudicaule HUTH, Delph. N. Am. 9. 



1892. 

 D. -peltatum HOOK. ex. Huth, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 449. 1895. 



Stem i to T.y 2 feet high, glabrous, branched, few-leaved: 

 leaves rather succulent, i to 3 inches across, lobed to the mid- 

 dle or farther 3 to 7 times, the secondary lobes rounded and 

 often mucronate ; petioles 3 to 5 inches long, dilated at the 

 base : flowers panicled ; sepals bright orange-red, obtuse, 

 scarcely spreading, shorter than the stout spur ; petals yellow, 

 nearly as long as sepals ; spurs long and funnel-form : follicles 

 3, spreading and recurved, soon becoming glabrous; seeds 

 thin-winged. April to July. Along mountain streams, North- 

 ern California. Bot. Mag. 5819. Flor. des Serr. 19: 1949. 

 Revue Hort. 1893, p. 259. Marsh, Hot Springs near Santa 

 Rosa, Calif., a pubescent form with thicker leaves. Collected 

 by Coville, May, 1884. 



4. D. cardinale HOOK. Bot. Mag. t. 4887. 1855. 

 D. coccineum TORR. Pac. Ry. Rep. 4: 62. 1857. 

 D.jftammeum KELLOGG, in Proc. Calif. Acad. 2 : 22. 1863. 



Stem erect, 2 to 3^ feet high, partly pubescent: leaves 

 smooth, fleshy, deeply 5-parted, the parts cut into long, linear 

 lobes : elongated, many-flowered raceme, flowers bright red 

 with petal limbs yellow : follicles glabrous, usually 3 ; seeds 

 smooth. July to Aug. California. Gartenflora, 208. Flor. 

 des Serr. u, p. 63. /. 7/05. Garden 19: 273. 



5. D. viridescens LEIBERG, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, n : 39. 

 1897. 



Roots fascicled not tuberous : plant 5 feet high, pubescent, 

 especially above : lower stem-leaves often 3-parted and again 

 3~5-lobed and toothed ; upper leaves dissected into narrow 

 lobes ; leaves all thin ; pedicels slender, short, appressed : a 

 narrow bractlet near the base or half way up, and a pair very 

 near the flower : inflorescence and follicles very hairy : flowers 



