334 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



Plant 2^ feet high, slightly pubescent above : radical leaves 

 long-petioled, secondary divisions sessile : sepals ovate-lanceo- 

 late, much exceeding the petal-limbs in length, which are 6 

 lines long, white, rounded-truncate ; stamens not protruding 

 beyond the petal-limb ; spur knobbed, bent inward, shorter than 

 petal-limb : follicles pubescent with styles their own length. 

 June. Eastern Siberia. In 1898 F. H. Horsford said of this : 

 '• the first to bloom with me, and one of the most attractive in 

 the list. It is one of the most dwarfed ; flowers large, blue, 

 yellow and white : it comes so much before the others that its 

 capsules, as a rule, all fertilize before any of the other species 

 come into flower." 



A. Jonesii Perry, Am. Nat. 8: 211. 1874. 



True stem very short or almost wanting, soft-pubescent : 

 tufted root-leaves an inch or two high from the stout, ascending 

 branches of the rootstock ; biternately divided partial petioles 

 very short or none ; leaflets very crowded : flowers blue ; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, equalling the spurs and twice the length of the 

 petal limbs and head of stamens : follicles glabrous, large, 

 nearly i inch long, styles ^ as long ; peduncles lengthening to 

 about 3 inches in fruit. July. N. W. Wyoming, Mont., to 

 Brit. Am. Garden & Forest, 9: 365. 



A. elegantula Greene, Pitt. 4: 14. 1899. 



Erect, slender, mostly less than a foot high, glabrous except 

 on the inflorescence, the peduncle and exterior of the .flowers 

 hirtellous-pubescent ; stem scapiform, usually only bracted ; 

 radical leaves long-petioled, glabrous beneath : flowers mostly 

 solitary, terminal, small, about i inch long, sepals light green, 

 erect ; petal-limbs light yellow, erect ; spurs straight, longer 

 than the sepals, rather widely inflated above and light scarlet 

 in that part; filaments short; styles exserted. June. Slide 

 Rock Canon, and in Spruce woods Mt. Hesperus, S. Colo. 

 Described from the original. Type in Greene's Herbarium (f). 



A. brevistyla Hook. F1. Bor Am. i : 24. 1833. 



A. vulgaris Richards, in Frankl. Jl. App. 740. 1823, 



not Linn. 

 A. vulgaris var. brevistyla Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. Ser. 2, 



33: 242. 1862. 

 A. Laramiensis A. Nelson Wyom. Exp. Sta. Bull. 28: 



78. 1895-6. 



