Davis: DELPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 439 



Var. glareosum n. var. 



D. glareosum GREENE, Pitt. 3: 257. 1898. 



Rootstock thick, either simple or branched : plant 3 to 8 

 inches high, with i to 3 stem leaves: follicles 3 to 5, glabrous 

 or nearly so. Summit of Mt. Steele, Wash. (f). 



n. D. decorum FISCH. & MEY. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3: 



33- !837- 

 D. hesperium HUTH, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 446. 1895. 



Stem slender and weak, ^ to i y 2 feet high, smooth or nearly 

 so : leaves few, bright green, upper ones small, 3~5~parted into 

 narrow lobes, lower and radical ones somewhat reniform in out- 

 line and deeply 3-5-parted, lobes often differing widely : flow- 

 ers in a loose raceme, or somewhat panicled ; sepals blue, *^ 

 inch long, equalling the spurs ; upper petals at least tinged with 

 yellow : follicles 3, thickish, glabrous ; seeds rugose, not winged. 

 Spring. Calif. Bot. Reg. 26: 64. 



Var. gracilentum n. var. 



D. gracilentum GREENE, Pitt. 3: 15. 1896. 



Differs from the type chiefly in the radical leaves, which are 

 larger, deeply about 5-parted or lobed, the lobes mostly oval or 

 oblong, obtuse and entire, apiculate : pedicels often filiform. 

 Foothills of Sierra Nevada in California (f). 



Var. patens GRAY, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54. 1887. 

 Z>. -patens BENTH. PI. Hartw. 296. 1848. 

 D. tricorne var. -patens HUTH, Delph. N. Am. 13. 1892. 



Stem erect : racemes compact : flowers small, sepals a third to 

 a half inch long, upper petals often deeply lined with blue ; 

 seeds somewhat winged. Siskiyou Co. to southern Califor- 

 nia (f). 



12. D. hesperium GRAY, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54. 1887. 



D. Jlfenziesuvar. ochroleucum TORR. & GRAY, Fl. 1 : 31. 



1838. 



D. azureum TORR. & GRAY, Fl. I : 660. 1840. In part. 

 D. azureum & D. simplex HOOK. & ARN. Bot. Beech. 



317. 1841. 

 D. simplex WATS. Bot. Calif. 1 : 10. 1876. 



Roots fascicled, short, some of them fusiform, 2 feet high ; 

 stem and leaves puberulent, or hairy below : leaves rather small, 

 much dissected into narrow parts : racemes long, many flowered ; 



