Ranunculaceae 107 



sepals scarlet varying to orange, spreading 

 or reflexed, an inch long, lanceolate, acute; 

 petals yellow, more or less spreading, with 

 a scarlet spur about the length of the sepals ; 

 styles and stamens exserted. 



Throughout the Selkirks, in moist 

 ground, on slopes and borders of rocky 

 alpine streams, flowering during July and 

 late June. 



Delphinium Stem tal1 ' 2 ~5 feet hi S h > leaf Y' 

 Brownii Leaves mostly orbicular in out- 



Rydb. line, 5-y-parted, the upper into 



Western narrow-cleft, laciniate divisions, 



Larkspur. 



petioled. Flowers nodding, less 



than an inch long, dull purple, bluish or 

 occasionally white, numerous in an elon- 

 gated spike ; sepals 5 , blue, J of an inch long, 

 not spreading, the upper one prolonged into 

 a spur, half an inch long; petals white, nearly 

 as long as the sepals. 



Frequent in the region around Banff in 

 open woods at the lower altitudes, flowering 

 in July. 



