436 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 
the bracts, blue or violet or white; petals 2, united: follicle 1, 
glabrous; seeds with broken, transverse ridges. June to Aug. 
Europe. Baxter Brit. Bot: 4. 7.297. Rev: Hort. 1893, p- 22a 
(var. ornatum candelabrum). 
3. D. nudicaule Torr. @iGray, Fl, 2: °33.:) 1938. 
D. sarcophyllum Hoox. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 317. 1841. 
D. decorum var. nudicaule Hutu, Delph. N. Am. g. 
1892. 
D. peltatum Hook. ex. Huth, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 449. 1895. 
Stem I to 1% feet high, glabrous, branched, few-leaved: 
leaves rather succulent, 1 to 3 inches across, lobed to the mid- 
dle or farther 3 to 7 times, the secondary lobes rounded and 
often mucronate; petioles 3 to 5 inches long, dilated at the 
base: flowers panicled; sepals bright orange-red, obtuse, 
scarcely spreading, shorter than the stout spur; petals yellow, 
nearly as long as sepals; spurs long and funnel-form: follicles 
3, spreading and recurved, soon becoming glabrous; seeds 
thin-winged. April to July. Along mountain streams, North- 
ern California. Bot. Mag. 5819. Flor. des Serr. 19: 1949. 
Revue Hort. 1893, p. 259. Marsh, Hot Springs near Santa 
Rosa, Calif., a pubescent form with thicker leaves. Collected 
by Coville, May, 1884. 
4. D. cardinale Hoox. Bot. Mag. ¢. 4887. 1855. 
DP éoccineum Torr: Pac. Ry. Rep. 4: 62.) 8573 
D. flammeum KELLOGG, in Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 22. 1863. 
Stem erect, 2 to 3% feet high, partly pubescent: leaves 
smooth, fleshy, deeply 5-parted, the parts cut into long, linear 
lobes: elongated, many-flowered raceme, flowers bright red 
with petal limbs yellow: follicles glabrous, usually 3; seeds 
smooth. July to Aug. California. Gartenflora, 208. Flor. 
Ges Serr TL, Pp. 03. 2.0205. Marden 19% 273. 
5. D. viridescens LerBere, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. I1: 39. 
1897. 
Roots fascicled not tuberous: plant 5 feet high, pubescent, 
especially above: lower stem-leaves often 3-parted and again 
3-5-lobed and toothed; upper leaves dissected into narrow 
lobes; leaves all thin; pedicels slender, short, appressed; a 
narrow bractlet near the base or half way up, and a pair very 
near the flower: inflorescence and follicles very hairy: flowers 
