50 RANUNCULACE.E. Delphinium: 



D- Menziesii, DC. Commonly pubescent or pubernlent : stem often flcxuous (a foot or 

 two or when depauperate a span or two high) : leaves all 3-5-parted and divisions maiulv 

 cleft into linear or lanceolate lobes: se])als or some of them loosely jiuliesccnt outside, lialf 

 to two thirds inch long ; slender spur of equal length : follicles pubescent or glabrate or 

 occasionally glabrous : lower pedicels in fruit often 2 inches long. — Syst. i. 355 ; Lindl. Bot. 

 Keg. t. 1192; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 25; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 661, excl. syn. D. paucifloruin} 



— On hills, &c., Brit. Columbia (and perhaps Alaska) south to N. E. California, east to 

 Idaho; early flowering; first coll. by Menzies. A low form, apparently of this species, 

 Flunias Co., California, ^Jl■s. Austin. 



= = Follicles at maturity half inch or less in length and oblong, erect, or merely with 

 spreading tips. 



D. decorum, Fisch. & Meyer. Very glabrous or pedicels barely puberulent, bright 

 green : stem lax, 6 to 20 inches high, few-leaved : radical and lower canlinc leaves of dilated- 

 reniform or orbicular outline and deeply .3-5-lobed or parted ; the divisions from round- 

 obovate (and even an inch wide) to cuneate, sometimes entire or slightly 2-3-lobed, some- 

 times narrower and 2-3-cleft ; upper leaves small, mostly pedately 3-5-parted into narrow 

 lobes : raceme sparsely 5-20-flowered, often paniculate ; pedicels slender, spreading, usually 

 an inch or two long: sepals oval, half inch or more long, equalled by the thickish .spur : 

 follicles thickish, oblong. — Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1837, 33 (large-flowered form); Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 661 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. II, in part; Gray, 1. c. — California, from 

 Kapa and Bodega to Los x\ngeles and San Bernardino Mountains ; early flowering. The 

 type rather large-flowered ; varying to smaller flowers and to 



Var. patens, Gray, 1 c. 54. Sometimes obscurely and sparsely pubescent : stem erect; 

 raceme commonly more compact ; pedicels ascending in fruit, rarely over an inch long : 

 flowers smaller, the sepals a third to half inch long. — D. patens, Benth. PI. Hartw. 296.'^ 



— From Siskiyou Co., to the mountains of S. California. 



D. pauciflorum, Nutt. Glabrous or barely puberulent : stems slender, a span to a foot 

 high from a fasciculate-tuberous root (the tubercles from oblong to fusiform) ; leaves small, 

 all pedately parted into narrowly linear divisions of an inch or less in length : raceme 3-15- 

 flowered ; pedicels about the length of the flowers : sepals quarter to third inch long, oblong, 

 little surpassing the petals, much shorter than the slender spur : follicles so far as known 

 oval-oblong, about 4 lines long. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 33; Gray, 1. c. D. NuttalU- 

 aniim, Pritzel in Walp. Rep. ii. 744, but the homonym of Don is not in the way of Nuttall's 

 name.'' — Rocky Mountains from Wyoming to W. Colorado, and west to Idaho and eastern 

 borders of Wa.-*hington and California. 



Var. depauperatum. Gray, 1. c. Slender stems only 1-3-leaved and 1-7-flowered ; 

 pedicels more erect: radical and lower cauline leaves flabelliform or reniform and with 

 obovate to lanceolate lobes, not unlike those of D. decorum, var. patens, of which it may be a 

 form with reduced sepals and slender spur. — D. depauperatum, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 33; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 12.* — Mountains of E. Oregon and W. Nevada, Nuttall, Beck- 

 tcith, Watson, scanty specimens, perhaps referable to 



Var. Nevadense, Gray, u. var. Less slender, 8 to 15 inches high: leaves well dis- 

 sected into linear or spatulate-linear lobes : raceme 7-20-flowered : pedicels spreading, the 

 lower about an inch long : flowers sometimes pink-purplish : sepals a third to almost half 

 inch long, all shorter than the spur: follicles short-oblong. — D. decorum, v&r. Nevadense, 

 Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 11. — Sierra Nevada, California, above Cisco, Bolander, Plumas Co., 

 Mrs. Austin, and adjacent Nevada, Lewmon. 



D' Nuttdllii, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous or nearly so : stem strict and simple, commonly 2 feet 

 high, leafy usually up to the rather strict or virgate and 1 0-20-flowered raceme : leaves thin- 

 nish, mostly 5-parted and divisions cleft into lanceolate lobes : pedicels .ascending, half inch 

 to inch long: flowers deep indigo-blue, usually even to the petals; sepals 4 lines and slender 



1 Add syn. ?Z>. pauperculum, Greene (Pittonia, i. 284), which, notwithstanding its later flowering, 

 may from character well be of this species. Add also syn. D. tricorne, var. Menziesii, Hutli, 1. c. 13. 



2 Add syn. D. tricorne, van patens, Huth, 1. c. 



8 Add s\Ti. D. Menziesii, va.r. pauciflorum, Huth in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 415. 

 •* Add syn. D. tricorne, var. depauperatum, Huth, Delph.-Art. N. A. 13. 



