Delphinium. KANUNCULAlE.I:. 47 



(varying to white), small, externally as also the iufluroscence canescently pnlKTuU-nt — 

 Kew. ii. 244; DC. Syst. i. 357 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 31, excl. nyn. iu part ; Gray, I'l. Wright, 

 ii. 9. D. Carolinianum, Walt. Car. 1.55. D. Iridacti/lum, Miclix. Fl. i. 314. {D. urcitJaliim, 

 .Jacq. Ic. Har. t. 101, & .Siin.s, Jiot. Mag. t. 1791, of unknown sonne, iw probably not of thii* 

 ,>ipo( ics ?) — r.oriKr of woods, mountains of Alabama and Carolina to Ki-ntucky, Ohio and 

 Minnesota; II. late .■summer. 



D. Californicum, Tork. & Ckvy. Stem stout, 2 to 8 feet high : leaves of rounded and 

 somewhat reuiforni outline; lower ample (4 to 7 inches in diameter), lieeply cleft into broad 

 cunoatc and laciniate divisions ; ujijicr with narrower tiivisions and hmceolate lolies : raceme 

 dense, flowers sordid whitish witli lingos of blue, e.xteriially villous : sepals and horizonl^il 

 spur each about four lines long. — Fl. i. 31 ; Benth. I'l. llartw. '2'.iCy; Hrew. & Wats. But. 

 Calif, i. 11. D. exuluuum. Hook. & Arn. Hot. Beech. 317, not Ait.^ — Caiilurnia, on ilrv 

 hills from Monterey to Mendocino Co. ; first coll. by lJoU(/liis. 



D. SCOpulorum, Gray. Glabrous below or throughout : stem 2 to 6 feet (or iti sub::I|.ii.. 

 forms a tV»ot) liigli : leaves mostly of orbicular outline and 2 or 3 inches in diameter, 5-7-parl<3ii, 

 the lower into cuneate and upper into narrower cleft and laciniate divisions; petioles exct-jit 

 lowest hardly dilated at base : bracts and bractlets mainly filiform : flowers blue or pur]di.sh, 

 rarely white, glabrous or cauescent-puberulent outside : sei)als and spur each about half 

 inch long: follicles veiny. — Polymorphous species or group, analogue of the eipially 

 polymorphous or complex D. elatiim, L., and D. hi/bitdiim, Willd., of the old World (which 

 have seed-coat transversely rugulose or lamellose) ; the typical or fir.-^t jiublished form a foot 

 to a yard high, with upper or even all the leaves dissected into linear or lanceolate segments 

 and lobes ; inflorescence often panicled below, the axis, pedicels, and even the whole nj)per 

 part of the stem minutely cinereous-puberulent, varying to glabroius : lower petals deeply 

 notched, and with the whitish upper ones little shorter than the oblong sepals : ovaries and 

 fidlides commonly miimtely pubescent. — PI. Wright, ii. 9, & Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 

 242. D. exaltutiDii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 25, at least in part. D. azureiim. Gray, PI. Fen<ll. 

 5, as to no. 10."^ — Moist ground, mountains of New Mexico and Arizona through the K(x-ky 

 Mountains and those of Utah and Nevada to the plains of the Saskatchewan. Piisses 

 freely into 



Var. stach^deum, Gray. A form with narrow divisions to the leaves, strict stem 

 (3 to 7 feet high) cinercou.s-puberulent throughout, a.s also the long and dense spiciform 

 raceme and the outside of the calyx. — Bot. Gaz. xii. 52. — Interior of Oregon (foot of the 

 Blue Mountains, &c., Cusick) to New Mexico and Arizona, Pringlc, &c. 



Var. glaucuin, Gray-, 1. c. Like the broader-leaved forms, sometimes glaucous, even 

 the pedicels glabrous or only obscurely glandular-puberulent : lower petals commonly cleft 

 to the middle: ovaries and follicles glabrous. =^ Z>. (ihucum, Wats. Bot Calif, ii. 427 

 (D. scopulorum, Brew. & Wats. ibid. i. 11).='— Sierra Nevada, California, at alxmt 6,000 

 feet, Breicer, Lemmnii ; also apparently same in San Bernardino Mountains at 10,000 feet, 

 W. G. \Vri<jlU; Yakima Co., Wasliiugtou, Brandcrjep ; and north to the Yukon Kiver, 

 Kcnnlcott. ^ 



Var. SUbalpinum, Gray, l. c. A foot to a yard or more high, with shorter r.ioeme 

 of larger and deeper-colored flowers: inflorescence and commonly whole upper part of the 

 stem ]mliesccnt or villous with sjjreading slightly viscid liaii-s: jietals well surpassed by the 

 over half inch long acute .sepals, the lower moderately notched at apex ; follicles glabrous: 

 leaves with mostly broad divisions and lolies. — D. elatnm, Gray, Am. J<mr. Sci., ser. 2. xxxiii. 

 242, not L., &c. D. occidentale, Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 428.< — Mountains of Colorado and New 

 Mexico, at 9,000-1 1,000 feet, first coll. by Parri/. The analogtic of V. alpiniiin, W!Uds.& Kit. 

 By less pubescent f(U-ms, of lower elevation and ronipound racemes (D. > latum, var.? occi- 

 dentale, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 11), of Wasatch M..unl;iitis, Utah to Oregon, Xeviits, Cusick, 

 Ilenderson, connects with the preceding forms. 



1 Add sjTi. D.exahatnm, var. OiU/oinlruin, Huth, I>. :|mi. v . '' 



2 Atld syn. Z). exnllnluvi, v.'ir. scopulorum, Uuth, 1. c. 12. 

 8 Add syn. D. exallalum, var. f/laurum, Hutli, 1. c. 11. 



4 n. Barbeyi, Iluth (Bull. Herb. Boi.ss. i.535, D. exalWnm. x .r. /.ro..-/;. uiiii, w.ii n.-Art. 

 N. A. 11) is one of several forms which Dr. Gray included iu his vur. suh.itpinum. 



