Davis : DEEPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 441 



Var. Emiliae n. var. 



D. Emilice, GREENE, Erythea, 2: 120. 1894. 



Plants often 3 feet high : racemes elongated : flowers usually 

 more numerous than in the type. Open places near the head 

 of Knight's Valley, Sonoma Co., Calif, (f). 



15. D. tricorne MICHX. Fl. i : 314. 1803. 

 D.flexuosum RAF. Ann. Nat. I : 12. 1820. 



D. aconitifolium MUHLENB. ex Huth, Bot. Jahrb. 20 : 445. 



1895. 



Stem succulent, about i foot high: leaves 3-5 -parted with 

 3~5-cleft linear lobes ; petioles smooth, hardly dilating at the 

 base : flowers large, blue, rarely whitish ; upper petals some- 

 times yellow, with blue veins ; lower ones white-bearded ; 

 sepals nearly equalling the spur : follicles 3 or 4, very long, 

 becoming glabrous, strongly diverging ; seeds smooth. May. 

 Northern States. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 4: 306. Very beautiful 

 and much used. 



16. D Andersonii GRAY, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. 1887. 



D. decorum var. Nevadense WATS. Bot. Calif, i: n. 



1876. In part. 



D. Menziesii WATS. Bot. King Exp. 1871. Not DC. 

 D. tricorne var. Andersonii HUTH, Delph. N. Am. 13. 



1892. 



Stem erect, robust, nearly glabrous, i^ feet high : leaves 

 rather small, thickish, cuneate divisions, lobes obtuse, short: 

 racemes long, dense : flowers blue ; sepals y 2 inch long, shorter 

 than the spur: follicles 3 to 5, about y z inch long, not recurv- 

 ing; seeds winged. Western Nevada to mountains of Cali- 

 fornia (f). D. Sonnet GREENE, Pitt. 3 : 264, 1897, is a 

 slender, weak form, from California (|). 



17. D. Parishii GRAY, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. 1887. 



Several stemmed, much like the following, but with racemes 

 and flowers smaller : sepals oblong, ^ to ^ inch long, hardly 

 surpassing the petals, shorter than the spur ; upper petals yel- 

 lowish : seed-coats transversely wrinkled ; margin broad, wing- 

 like. Southeastern California, southward into Lower Cali- 

 fornia (f). 



18. D. Parryi GRAY, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. 1887. 



Much like the last: leaves not thick, divisions or lobes few 



