290 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Nov., 
V. Sheltonii Torr. Known by the glabrous palmately dis- 
sected leaves of orbicular outline and light yellow petals. The 
stigma has the bearded tufts of the related species, but small. 
+ + Lateral petals bearded; upper deep violet-purple or blue; lower 
pale or yellow. 
V. Beckwithii Torr. & Gray, is pubescent or puberulent, its 
rounded leaves palmately about thrice 3-parted into linear or spat- 
ulate-linear acutish or obtuse lobes, the primary divisions petio- 
lulate: upper petals deep violet-purple, the others light blue or 
bluish, with yellow base, latera] ones short-bearded. 
V. Hallii Gray. Glabrous throughout: the leaves of ovate or 
oblong or irregular outline, subpinnately or pedately about twice 
parted into lanceolate or linear lobes, their tips obtuse or acutish 
and callous-apiculate, veins or ribs indistinet: upper stipules 
commonly foliaceous, often enlarged and laciniate or entire: Up- 
per petals deep blue, others yellow or cream-color.—From Salem, 
regon, to Humboldt county, California. 
Group V. Caulescent; the few-several-leaved stems erect from short a 
creeping rootstocks; no stolons; no radical flowers: spur of corolla short am 
saccate; lateral petals commonly scantily papillose-bearded : stigma beakless, 
bearded or pubescent at the sides. 
* Petals yellow: main stems usually naked at base and few-leaved above. 
_ VY. lobata Benth. Pl. Hartw. A species of the Pacific Coast, 
we very various and mostly digitately cleft or lobed leaves : 
with 
Var. integrifolia Watson, with mostly deltoid- or rhombie- 
ovate often caudate-acuminate leaves, which is to the een 
what V. hastata is to V. tripartita Ell. Perhaps it passes to ' 
glabella, 
