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than or equaling the blades : lowest flowers axillary on downy 
peduncles, which are erect but recurve at apex, about 2™™ long ; 
upper ones from slender bracts, forming a rather dense raceme: 
divisions of the calyx about as long as the spur, elliptical, silky 
villous exteriorly, dark blue with black spot near the apex ; spur 
slender, 2.5° long, tapering to an obtuse apex less than 1™ 
wide, straight or curved, slightly erect or horizontal: upper 
petals white, veined with blue ; lower bearded with yellow hairs : 
immature capsules densely clothed with white silky wool. 
This may have been identified with D. Menziesii Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
pi. 4192, as this seems to have been the only species reported from the arctic 
region. It is very different from the figure in the Botanical Register, and 
quite unlike any specimen identified as that species in the herbarium of the 
oe a of Sciences. Without the root and ripe or fully grown 
wise to name species of Delphinium, but in a list like the 
present one it is better to name it, if it is described, than to leave it described 
but unnamed 
4 . 
. 
67. Ranuncutus nivauis L., Sp. Pl. 553.1763; Fl. Lapp. 
: : : 3 - fig.2.—Roots fibrous: caudex often branched, sheathed with 
oe bases of old leaves: radical leaves cuneate, 3-5- 
a » On long petioles ; cauline sessile, one or two with deeper 
of more spreading divisions : flowers yellow, 2™ across: calyx 
9 orbicular sepals clo 
a long, orbicular to a 
- turgi nae elongated peduncle; akenes orbicular, somewhat — 
; base, 3-veined, s 
~~ ‘flowered stem 
ACTOss: se 
