Davis: A SVNONVMIC CONSPECTUS OK ACOXITU.MS. 351 



A. iauriciun Wulf. in Jacq. Coll. 2: 112. 1788. 



A. neubergensc DC. Syst. i : 373. 1818. 



A. strictuin Bernh. ex DC. 1. c. 373. 



A. laxiftortim Schl. Cat. 5. 182 1. 



NapcUus vulgaris Fourr. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. 



s. 16: 326. 1868. 



Reichenbacii has given twenty-four names to forms of 



this : acutum, ainhigunm, anuvntini, Bcrnhardianum, 



Braunii, callihotryon, clusianuni^ commtitatiun, Jirnitmi^ 



formosum^ Funkianiim^ hians^ Hopj)eanum, Koehleri^ 



IcBtum, laxiJlo7'iim Schl., laxu?n, Mielichhofcri^ napel- 



loides S\v., oligocarpuin, rigiduni, tennifolitmi^ venus- 



iH))i, virgatiim. 



The best known, as well as the most poisonous species. 



Stem erect, 3-4 ft. high: leaves divided to the base and cleft 



2-3 times into linear lobes : flowers blue in a raceme : peduncles 



erect, pubescent: helmet broad and low, gaping, smoothish : 



follicles 4, rarely 3. June-July. Europe, and naturalized 



here. Gartenflora, 35 : 227 (named A. dissectiim Don.). 



Regne Vegetal, Med. PI. 2. There are ver}^ many varieties, 



differing in shade of flowers, often mottled or lined with white. 



Var. album is nearly white. Var. hicolor and Var. versicolor 



are much used in gardens for the large blue-and-white flowers. 



Bot. Cab. 8 : 794 {versicolor^. 



A. delphinifolium DC. Syst. i : 380. 18 18. 



A. Napellus var. delphinijoliuni Seringe, INIus. Helv. i : 



159. 1823. 

 Reichenbach used for forms of this : Chamissonianum^ 

 paradox u)ii, seniigalcahun. 

 Stem erect, 1-3 feet high, pubescent : leaves deeplv parted, 

 and cleft into narrow lobes : flowers blue, large ; hood low, 

 beak short ; lateral sepals as long" and twice as broad as the 

 lower : follicles oblong. British Columbia and Alaska througrh 

 islands of Behring Strait to Asia. 



Var. ramosum n. var. 



A. ramosum A. Nels. Bull. Torr. Club 26: 8. 1899. 

 Much like the t3'pe : leaves larger with fewer and longer 

 segments : follicles less pubescent. Professor Nelson consid- 

 ers the pubescence different. Only once found : Limestone 

 Range, Black Hills, Weston Co., Wyom. Co-type at Colum- 

 bia.(t) 



