442 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



and linear : sepals oval, over y 2 inch long, much surpassing 

 the petals, fully as long as the spur : follicles as in the last ; 

 seeds with loose coats, folded at the angles forming wing-like 

 processes. Southern California (f). 



19. D. Menziesii DC. Syst. i : 355. 1818. 



D. paupercuium GREENE, Pitt, i : 284. 1889. 

 Plant sparingly pubescent: stem simple, slender, y 2 to i l /> 

 feet high, few-leaved : leaves small, 3~5-parted, the divisions 

 mainly cleft into linear or lanceolate lobes ; petioles hardly di- 

 lating at the base : flowers in simple conical racemes ; sepals 

 blue, somewhat pubescent outside, nearly equalling the spurs 

 in length; upper petals yellowish: follicles 3, pubescent or 

 sometimes glabrous ; seeds black-winged on the outer angles. 

 April to June. On hills, California and northward to Alaska. 

 Bot. Reg. 14 : 1192. 



20. D. pauciflorum NUTT. ex Torr. & Gray, FL i: 33. 



1838. 



D. Nuttallianum PRITZ. in Walpers Rep. 2 : 744. 1843. 

 JD. Menziesii var. -pauciflorum HUTH, Bot. Jahrb. 20 : 



445- 1895. 



Stem slender, nearly glabrous, ^ to i foot high ; oblong or 

 fusiform fasciculate-tuberous roots : leaves small, parted into 

 narrow linear lobes ; petioles not dilating at base : flowers and 

 fruit similar to those of D. Menziesii, but on shorter pedicels. 

 May to June. Colorado to Washington and California. 

 Var. Nevadense GRAY, Syn. Fl. i: 50. 1895. 



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



1876. In part. 



Leaves much dissected : racemes with spreading pedicels : 

 flowers often pinkish purple ; sepals longer than in the type 

 but shorter than the spur: follicles much like the type. Sierra 

 Nevadas, above Cisco, and in Plumas Co., Calif., into Ne- 

 vada (f). 



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



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



1892. 



Stem leaves few, lobes ovate to lanceolate : racemes fewer 

 flowered than in the type and in the preceding variety. North- 

 western Nevada into Oregon (f). 



