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thick marginal nerve, not at all inflated, 1-1^4" long, 

 nearly i" wide, broadly obovoid and obliquely so, mi- 

 nutely apiculate; style minute; seed curved, nearly i" 

 long, oblong-obovate, very much smaller than the akene ; 

 akenes many in a head. This is jR. Andersoni var. ten- 

 ellus Wats., but Mr. Watson seems to have failed to rec- 

 ognize the great difference in the akene. 



This grows on gravelly mountain sides among the rocks 

 and junipers, and is the earliest bloomer of all flowers. 



Delphinium scopulorum var. attenuatum. 



No. 5893d. August 23, Head of Bullion Creek, Utah, 

 near Marysvale, 11,500° alt., on gravelly and springy 

 places along cold subalpine streams. 



No. 5684c. July 25, Mt. Ellen, Henry Mts., Utah, 10- 

 000° alt., in similar situations. 



This has the wide leaves of the variety glaitcum as well 

 as the large flowers, it has the viscid pubescence of the 

 variety siibal-pinuni ; sepals linear and attenuate, 12" long, 

 about 2" wide at base, three times as long as the petals, 

 nearly glabrous ; spur shorter than the sepals, about 10" 

 long, ascending; racemes compound below; flowers deep 

 blue. This approaches nearest to D. elatuni of any Amer- 

 ican form, but the petals of that species are very dark 

 and the sepals wider; in this species the upper petals are 

 white and veiny and the lower light-blue and hairy. 



This grows at timber-line along brooks, has a very 

 strong odor of musk, and grows in large tufts about a yard 

 high. 



No. 5759 is a transition form toward the type. Gath- 

 ered August 7, Fish Lake, Utah, 11,000° alt., in hollows 

 near snow banks. 



Delphinium paitcijlornm var. de^aiiperatitni (Nutt.) 

 Gray. My specimens No. 5391, June 5, 1895, Marys- 

 vale, Utah, in Bullion Canon, 9000° alt., in gravel, have 



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