Davis: DELPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 437 



cream to greenish-yellow, small; spurs nearly horizontal, 

 longer than the sepals, and as long as the upper pedicels. 

 May to July. Type near Peshaston and Wenatchee, Okanogan 

 Co., Wash., 1500 feet (f). 



6. D. Californicum TORR. & GRAY, Fl. i : 31. 1838. 



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



Not Ait. 

 D. exaltatum var. Californicum HUTH, Delph. N. Am. n. 



1892. 

 D. Californicum var. scapigerum HUTH, Bot. Jahrb. 20 : 



451. 1895. 

 ? D. -viresccns RYDB. Bull. Torr. Club, 26: 385. 1899. 



(Fragment only.) 



Stem stout, 2 to 8 feet high; lower leaves very large, deeply 

 cleft, divisions broad wedge shaped ; upper with narrower divis- 

 ions and lanceolate lobes : racemes dense : flowers sordid whitish 

 with tinges of blue ; sepals and spur each about y inch long : 

 follicles much like those of D. exaltatum. Dry places. 

 Monterey to Mendocino Co., Calif, (f). 



Var. laxiusculum HUTH, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 451. 1895. 



Inflorescence very loose and open. San Francisco region 

 and northern Mexico. 



7. D. Przewalskii HUTH, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 407. 1895. 

 D. Przewahkianum HORT. 



Nearly glabrous, often branched at base, erect, varying much 

 in height : leaves 3 to 5 times deeply parted ; parts divided into 

 narrow obtuse lobes : flowers clear yellow, or sometimes tipped 

 with blue, spur equalling the sepals : follicles 3, densely hairy. 

 July to Aug. Asia. 



8. D. ZalilAiT. & HEMS. Trans. Linn. Soc. II, 3: 30. 1888. 

 D. hybridnm var. sulphureum HORT. 



Stem nearly simple, erect, i to 2 feet high, rather glabrous 

 or becoming so : leaves of several narrow, linear lobes, dark 

 green, petioles not dilating at the base : flowers large, light 

 yellow, in long racemes: follicles 3, longitudinally ribbed and 

 furrowed ; seeds with transverse, fibrous plates. June to July. 

 Persia. Bot. Mag. 7049. Garden 50: 1094; 54: 347. 

 Gard. Chron. Ill, 20, 247. 



