Davis : DEEPHINIUMS OF NORTH AMERICA. 441 
Var. Emilie n. var. 
D. Emilie GREENE, Erythea, 2: 120. 1894. 
Plants often 3 feet high: racemes elongated: flowers usually 
more numerous than in the type. Open places near the head 
of Knight’s Valley, Sonoma Co., Calif. (f). 
noe), tricome Micux. Fi. p: 314. “1803. 
D. flexuosum Rar. Ann. Nat. 1: 12. 1820. 
D. aconttifolium MuHLENB. ex Huth, Bot. Jahrb. 20: 445. 
1895. 
Stem succulent, about 1 foot high: leaves 3-5-parted with 
3-5-cleft linear lobes; petioles smooth, hardly dilating at the 
base: flowers large, blue, rarely whitish; upper petals some- 
times yellow, with blue veins; lower ones white-bearded ; 
sepals nearly equalling the spur: follicles 3 or 4, very long, 
becoming glabrous, strongly diverging; seeds smooth. May. 
Northern States. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 4: 306. Very beautiful 
and much used. 
16. D Andersonii Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. 1887. 
D. decorum var. Nevadense Warts. Bot. Calif. 1: 11. 
£O70.. In parts 
D. Menztesie Wats. Bot. King Exp. 1871. Not DC. 
D. tricorne var. Andersonit Hutu, Delph. N. Am. 13. 
1892. 
Stem erect, robust, nearly glabrous, 1% feet high: leaves 
rather small, thickish, cuneate divisions, lobes obtuse, short: 
racemes long, dense: flowers blue; sepals % inch long, shorter 
than the spur: follicles 3 to 5, about 1% inch long, not recury- 
ing; seeds winged. Western Nevada to mountains of Cali- 
fornia (ft). JD. Sonnez GREENE, Pitt. 3: 264, 1897, is a 
slender, weak form, from California (f+). 
E7e.D..Parishii Gray, Bot. Gaz..12: 53. 1887. 
Several stemmed, much like the following, but with racemes 
and flowers smaller: sepals oblong, 1% to % inch long, hardly 
surpassing the petals, shorter than the spur; upper petals yel- 
lowish : seed-coats transversely wrinkled; margin broad, wing- 
like. Southeastern California, southward into Lower Cali- 
fornia (f). 
no. D. Parryi Gray, Bot. Gaz..t2: 53. 1887. 
Much like the last: leaves not thick, divisions or lobes few 
