BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 



either white, with a bluish or greenish spot on the tip 

 each sepal, or very pale pink, with a purplish or blui 

 spot. The dull, yellowish-green leaves are rather thii 

 and downy, the pods erect. This grows in dryish pi 

 at moderate altitudes, and freely around Yosemite. 



A splendid flower when at its 

 Blue Larkspur . . . , . ., , ,. 



Delphinium bicolor* S1X mches to a foot and a half 

 Blue with a smooth stem, reddish below, 



Spring, summer smooth, bright-green leaves, pale on 



Under Side ' r Und in S eneral outline, th 

 lower ones with long, reddish leaf-stalk 

 sheathing the stem, the roots thick but not tuberous 

 The beautiful flowers are sometimes an inch and a ha 

 across, on long, rather spreading pedicels, few or many, i 

 a long loose cluster, the buds slightly downy. The genera 

 effect of the flowers is deep bright-blue, but when w 

 examine them more closely we find that the slight! 

 woolly spurs are purplish, the blue sepals have on the bac 

 protuberances, which are pinkish on the front and greenis 

 on the back, the two, small, upper petals are whitt 

 delicately striped with purple, and the lower ones, whic 

 are fuzzy with tufts of white down and two-cleft, are dee 

 pinkish-purple; sometimes the whole flower is much pale 

 in color. The anthers are large and green at first, bt 

 coming small and yellow, their threadlike filaments curling 

 This grows on dry hills. D. Pdrryi, of California, is abou 

 two feet tall, similar in coloring, but even handsomer, wit 

 a cluster nearly a foot long, closely crowded with beautifi 

 flowers, each an inch and a half across. The lower leave] 

 are slashed nearly to the center, into seven divisions, eac 

 with three, long, narrow lobes. 



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