Delphinium. RANUNCULACE.i:. f, | 



spur fully half inch long : follicles oblong, (iiiarter to half inch in length, erect. — D. glmpler, 



Nutt. in herb., not Dougl.i — Low ground, along streams and in open vfixnU, on and neiir 



Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, Nuttall, Jloirell, Ileudnson, Suksdorf; fl. guni- 



mer. There is apparently a variety with calyx and lower petals white.* 



§ 3. PHCENicoDicLPnis, Gray, 1. c. 49. Like § 2, but scarlet- and yellow-rtow- 



ered, the calyx mostly bright scarlet and petals wholly or partly yellow : C'ali- 



fornian perennials, glabrous or nearly so; with branching roots not tuberous, 



and showy flowers loosely racemose. (Germination in the first species with 



connate petioles elongating and plumule hypogaeous, emerging from base; in the 



second species said to be normal.) 



D. nudicaule, Torr. & Gray. Stem a foot or two high, naked or very few-leaved: 

 leaves somewhat succulent, 1 to 3 inches in diameter, deeply .^-.'i-cleft or barelv parted into 

 obovate or cuneate divisions, these with sliort ol)tu.><o lobes- racemes verv lo<jse ami open; 

 pedicels 2 to 4 inches long: spur half to two thirds inch Imig, usually considerably longer 

 than the sepals : follicles elongated-oblong, above spreading at maturity, at lirst pulierulcnt. 

 — Fl. i. 33, 661; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5819; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 12, with var. 

 elAtius, a taller form. D. sarcophi/llum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 317.8 — Banks of rivu- 

 lets in the mountains, from Bay of .San Francisco •* to near the borders of Oregon ; first coll. 

 by Douglas. 



D. cardinale, Hook. Stem a yard high, more branching and with elongated many-flowered 

 raceme : leaves larger, mostly deeply parted into narrow divisions, with long and linear or 

 lanceolate lobes : pedicels an inch or two long: flowers usually larger than in the preceding, 

 deeper red (rarely yellow) : ovaries and oblong follicles glabrous. — Bot. Mag. t. 4887 ; Torr. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 30, t. 2; Kegel, Gartenfl. vi. t. 208; F\. Serre.s, .\i. 63, t. 11 0.5; Brew. & 

 Wats. 1. c. D. roccineum, Torr. Pacif. K. Rep. iv. 62. — Mountains of S. W. ( riUfonui I.r,< 

 Angeles Co. to the Mex. boundary; first coll. by Parry. 



Recently published species of uncertain affinities. 

 D.* recurvatum, Greene. "Perennial, the root a fascicle of fleshy-fiiirous thick roots: 

 a foot or two high, strict and simple, or branching and the racemes more lax, glabrous and 

 glaucous, except a sparse pubescence on the lower face of the leaves and the jietioles : 

 leaves divided, each part cleft into al)Out 3 linear obtuse mucronulate segments, those nearest 

 the root on elongated petioles : raceme many-flowered, the peilicels ascending, an inch long: 

 flowers lavender-color (changing to pale blue in drying), the linear oblong sepals more than 

 a half inch long, conspicuously recurved, the blunt spur about as long and curved upwards." — ■ 

 rittonia, i. 285. — "Frequent in moist snbsaliuc grounds along the San Joaquin River, in 

 California, from Antioch to Tulare, flowering in March and April." Descriptions of this 

 and of th« two following species are quoted from the original characterizations. 



D.* Emiliae, Greene. " Slender, 2 feet high, from a strong cluster of thick woody-fibrons 

 roots ; stem retrorsely pubescent, some of the hairs hispid, others short and appressetl : 

 leaves on long villous-hispid petioles, the lamina cleft into about 5 segments wliich are 

 broadly linear and entire below, but above tlie midille widened and doubly cleft, the ulti- 

 mate divisions ovoid, acute : racemes about 3, slender-peduncled, rather loose : flowers small, 

 dark blue: sepals obovoid, each with a strong apiculation wiiich is abruptly incurved and 

 covers a manifest round saccate depre.ssion ; spur nearly straight, horizojitally projecting 

 or slightly a.scending: upper petals glabrous, the lateral ones horizontiilly spreading over 

 the stamens and very hirsute externally : follicles ijubescent, the hairs incurved and ai>- 

 pressed." — Erythea, ii. 120. — " Hill.sides, Knights Valley, Soimii.n Co. pMlif " Mrs. /^miii/ 

 G. Booth, 15 June, 1894. Said to be related to D. lariegatum. 



1 Add syn. D. Columhianum, Greene, Erythea, ii. 193. 



2 This blue and whito flowcied form is, with scarcely .a doubt, the D. leucophaum, just published 

 by Greene, 1. c. 118. It had been named and distributed .is a new species by Suks<lorr some limo 

 before. 



8 Add s>Ti. D. decorum, var. nudicnttle, Hnth, 1. c. 9. 



■* Southward to the Santa Lucia Mountain.s, Eastwood, Vorln<"/' . .in-, t^ nrtunlc-'i'i'. Zoc, iv. 148, 



