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Tulare county. The sepals are tinged with pink in the living" 

 plant, changing to purplish when dry. 



Delphinium greenei Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club, 38: 674. 1901. 

 No. 7803, collected May i, on the first ridge west of Keene 

 station in the Tehachapi mountains, Kern county. It was seen 

 at one place only, growing in rich ground on a grassy northerly 

 slope near trees and shrubs. The upper petals are rather spread- 

 ing, the upper edges not meeting, as they do in D. patens^ its 

 northern relative. Type locality, Coburn Mills, Tulare county, 

 collected by Brandegee. 



Delphinium recurvatum Greene, Pittonia, 1: 285. 1889. 



Originally recorded as "frequent in moist subsaline grounds 

 along the San Joaquin River in California, from Antioch to Tu- 

 lare, flowering in March and April." It is now known from the 

 lower Sacramento valley, where it was collected by the writer 

 in 1902 near Winters, Yolo county, no. 5399. 



No. 7633, collected April 8, along the bluffs of Kern river 

 opposite Oil City near Bakersfield, Kern county, and later was 

 seen at Oil City. It grows on rather steep slopes in sandy or 

 gravelly ground. This station is considerably farther south 

 than any previously recorded, but the plant seems to be the 

 same as the northern one. Perhaps a description of D. recur- 

 vatum drawn from living material may show specific differences, 

 for the flowers in this genus furnish excellent characters never 

 mentioned in descriptions made from dried plants. The writer 

 has a description of this no. 7633, made from the living plant, 

 but since nothing in the way of comparison can be gained at 

 at the present time, it does not seem advisable to print it. 



No. 7738, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern county, 50 

 miles southwest of Bakersfield. This grew on hillsides near the 

 town, and differs somewhat from 7633. The flowers are slightly 

 smaller, the sepals less spreading, and the lower petals divided 

 nearly to the middle instead of merely notched or rounded. In 

 the Synoptical Flora, page 51,/?. j-ecurvatum is included under 



