J 2 BOTANY. 



Var. Utahense. Segments of the leaves usually more deeply cleft, lobes 

 linear and acute ; the upper petals delicately veined with blue, which occurs 

 in none of the Nevada specimens. On Antelope Island, Salt Lake, and in 

 the Wahsatch Mountains; altitude 4,500-9,000 feet; May-July. It was 

 also collected by Tolmie in Southern Idaho, and by Stansbury near Salt 



Lake. (42.) 



Delphinium depauperatum, Nutt. Leaves and lower part of the stem 

 glabrous, upper part and the carpels densely villous ; leaves reni-form, 3-5- 

 parted, the lobes entire or 2-3-cleft, oblong and rather broad ; bracts simple, 

 minute ; raceme 1-5-flowered ; spur subulate, straight, longer than the oblong 

 obtuse sepals ; root grumous. — This seems to be a well-marked species ; more 

 slender and delicate than D. Menziesii, and more often alpine. It has not been 

 reported since collected by Nuttall in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Found 

 near streams on the Mt. Tobin range and on the East Humboldt Mount- 

 ains, Nevada ; 5-10,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (43.) 



AcoNiTUM NASUTUM, Fisch. Petals erect, with a strongly arcuate spur ; 

 galea broadly conical, prone, beak projecting ; raceme somewhat panicled ; 

 divisions of the leaves rather broad, coarsely laciniate-toothed. — Stem stout, 

 3-6° high, pubescent, at least above ; flowers purple or white. Colorado to 

 California, and northward. Found in moist shaded canons, Eastern Nevada 

 and Utah; 7-8,000 feet altitude; July-September. (44.) 



AcT^A SPicATA, L., Var. aeguta, Torr. {A. arguta, Nutt.) A larger 

 plant than var. rubra, with larger and more serrated leaflets and oblong 

 petals ; scarcely differing otherwise. Most of the Utah specimens are nearly 

 var. rubra. Fruit red or white. From the Columbia River to the Sacra- 

 mento. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch, Utah ; 

 6-7,000 feet altitude ; May-August. (45.) 



PcEONiA^ Beownii, Dougl. Grlabrous and glaucous ; stems decumbent, 

 6-12' long ; leaves 1-2-ternate, leaflets ternately divided or pinnatifid ; petals 

 deep brownish-purple, 6-9" in diameter; carpels 3-5, inverted in fruit. — 

 From Southern California to the Columbia. Found in the Carson Valley, and 

 in the East and West Humboldt ranges, Nevada ; 4,500-8,000 feet altitude ; 

 April-June. (46.) 



1 PCEONIA, L. Sepals 5, imbricated, herbaceous, persistent. Petals 5-10, broad and conspicuous, 

 without nectary. Carpels 2-5, many-ovuled, surrounded by a fleshy disk, coriaceous and follioulate- 

 dehiscent at maturity. Seeds large, with fleshy albumen.— Perennial herbs, -with alternate pinnately 

 dissected or decompound leaves. Benth. & Hook. 



