Davis: DELPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 439 
Var. glareosum n. var. 
D. glareosum GREENE, Pitt. 3: 257. 1898. 
Rootstock thick, either simple or branched: plant 3 to 8 
inches high, with 1 to 3 stem leaves: follicles 3 to 5, glabrous 
or nearly so. Summit of Mt. Steele, Wash. (tf). 
11. D. decorum Fiscu. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3: 
380 TOF: 
D. hespertum Hutu, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 446. 1895. 
Stem slender and weak, % to1% feet high, smooth or nearly 
so: leaves few, bright green, upper ones small, 3—-5-parted into 
narrow lobes, lower and radical ones somewhat reniform in out- 
line and deeply 3-5-parted, lobes often differing widely: flow- 
ers in a loose raceme, or somewhat panicled; sepals blue, % 
inch long, equalling the spurs; upper petals at least tinged with 
yellow : follicles 3, thickish, glabrous ; seeds rugose, not winged. 
Spring. Calif. Bot. Reg. 26: 64. 
Var. gracilentum n. var. 
D. gracilentum GREENE, Pitt. 3: 15. 1896. 
Differs from the type chiefly in the radical leaves, which are 
larger, deeply about 5-parted or lobed, the lobes mostly oval or 
oblong, obtuse and entire, apiculate: pedicels often filiform. 
Foothills of Sierra Nevada in California (f). 
Var. patens Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54. 1887. 
D. patens BentTH. Pl. Hartw. 296. 1848. 
D. tricorne var. patens Hutu, Delph. N. Am. 13. 1892. 
Stem erect: racemes compact: flowers small, sepals a third to 
a half inch long, upper petals often deeply lined with blue; 
seeds somewhat winged. Siskiyou Co. to southern Califor- 
nia (f). 
12. D. hesperium Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 54. 1887. 
D. Menziesii var. ochroleucum Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 31. 
1838. 
D. azureum Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 660. 1840. In part. 
D. azureum & D. simplex Hoox. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 
gry.”  TOAt. 
D. simplex Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 10. 1876. 
Roots fascicled, short, some of them fusiform, 2 feet high; 
stem and leaves puberulent, or hairy below: leaves rather small, 
much dissected into narrow parts : racemes long, many flowered ; 
