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or often tinned witli blue, the sccoiul flower suLtcmled l)y a pctiolcd leaf. — llook. 

 Fl. J'.or.-Aiii. i. Tl, t. 10. 



At Sitka, niul soiitliw.'iiJ in the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico and Utah. Not yet found 

 in Calilornia. 



2. C. billora, DC Loaves roiuul-reiiifdrm (broailei- than long), with hroad often 

 overlapping basal lobes, crenate or obscurely so : flowers rarely 2, the lower sub- 

 tended by a sessile leaf or bract, greenish white or yellowish. 



In tlu! Sierra Nevada, subalpine, and nortliward to British Coluniliia. The Cnlifoniian speei- 

 nu'iis seem to ditler from tiie more noitiieni ones only in their less distinct crenation, the veinlets 

 often jjlandular-excurrent. 



6". COPTIS, Salisb. lioLDriiuKAi). 

 Sepals 5 to 7, petal-like, deciduous. Petals narrowly linear, mostly cucuUate. 

 Stamens 10 to 25. Carjiels 3 to 8, in fruit foUiculate and stipitate, 4 - 8-seeded. 

 Seeds crustaceous, shining. — Low smootli evergreen perennials, with slender run- 

 ning rootstocks, subcoriaceous ternato radical leaves, and scape-like stems bearing 



1 to 3 whitish flowers. 



Four species are found in eastern Asia, one of which ranfjes also from Arctic America to the 

 northern Atlantic States. The following aie peculiar to tiie i'acilic Coast. 



1. C. asplenifolia, Salisb. Leaves tcrnate, biternate or ternate-qninate, the ovate 

 divisi(nis deej)ly 3-5-lobed and acuminately toothed : scape etpialling or exceeding 

 the leaves, 3 to 12 inches high : sejials very narrowly linear-lanceolate, 4 or 5 lines 

 long, spreading or reflexed ; jietals a third sliorter, nearly filiform, dilated and cucul- 

 late in the middle : fruit 4 to G lines long, exceeding the stipe. — Hook. Fl. P>or.- 

 Am. i. 2.3, t. 11. 



Mendocino County (6-'. 7.'. I'asci/) ; Cascade Mountains, Linn County, Oregon (IF. C. Casick) ; 

 Columliia Hiver {Ilnll) ; Sitka. The Alaskan specimens have the leaves generally more divided 

 than those of Oregon and California. 



C. occiDKNTALis, Torr. & Gray {Chrynncoptis nccidcntalis, Nutt. in Journ. Philad. Acad. vii. 9, 

 t. 1), is still impeifectly known hut is snjjposed to he distinguished by its linear petals, similar 

 to tlie sepals and not cucnllate. The leaves arc tcrnate, as in the simpler forms of tiie last. The 

 seeds (a little more than a line long) are jierhaps larger. The roots are said to be bright yellow. 

 It has been collected in the Umixpia Mountains, Oregon {Pickering), and north to Northern 

 Idaho, Lyall. 



7. ISOPYRUM. 



2. I. Stipitatum, Gray. Eoots fleshy-fibrous and fascicled (as in other species) : 

 radical leaves twice ternate, tlie leaflets on slender petioles, mostly 3-lobed or -parted ; 

 segments oblong, acutish : stems 3 or 4 inches high, equalling the leaves, 1 - 2-leaved 

 at the summit and bearing a single flower : peduncle thickened at summit : sepals 

 4 or 5, oblong, 3 lines long : follicles shortly stipitate, broad-oblong, very obtuse, 

 3 lines long and 3 - 4-seeded. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 54. /. ClavKii, Kellogg, Proc, 

 Calif. Aca.l. vii. 131. 



Near Yreka, Siskiyou County, veiy common on hillsides under bushes {Rev. E. L. Greene) ; 

 Mendocino County, J. II. Clarke! Flowering in April. 



I. Ham.if, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. .374, of the Columbia Valley, is 1 or 2 feet high, with 

 large biternate leaves, the peduncle bearing a subumbellate coiymb of 7 to 9 large flowers : follicles 



2 lines long, ovate-oblong, acuminate. 



Page 11. 9. DELPHINIUM. 



0. D. glaucum. (Substitute for D. scopulorum, (Iray.) Tall and stout, 

 glabrous and more or less glaucous : leaves large, laciniately lobed and toothed, the 

 segments mostly acuminate, the uppermost leaves sparingly lobeil or entire and nar- 

 rowly lanceolate : flowers ])ale blue, numerous in a narrow raceme, upon slender and 



