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upper leaves pedately 3 to 5 or rarely 7-parted into liuear-obloiig 

 lobes; racemes mostly many-flowered, 4 in. long or less; pedicels 

 slender, spreading, J to 1 or 2 in. long; flowers purple-violet; sepals 

 oval, 5 to 8 lines long, equaled by the spur; petals oblique, 2-oleft, 

 the upper whitish, purple-veined,' glabrous, smaller than the lower; 

 lower pubescent, especially above; mature follicles thickish, oblong, 

 6 to 6 lines long, erect, or the tips spreading; seeds rough-papillose. 

 Common in open woods: Vaca Hills, Piatt; Napa A'alley; Berkeley. 

 Earliest leaves shallowly 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes broad and rounded. 

 Kacemc often with a few branches at base or inclined to be corymbose. 



5. D. Menziesii DC. Root a cluster of roundish connected 

 tubers; herbage commonly pubescent; stems often flexuous, about 

 1 ft. high, leafy below; leaves parted, the divisions mainly cleft, long- 

 petioled; raceme loose; flowers few, on long ascending pedicels; pedicels 

 in fruit often 2 in. long; sepals J to f in. long, the slender spur of equal 

 length; follicles at maturity ^ to J in. long, almost always widely 

 recurving. 



Northern California; "San Mateo Co. and northward," Greene 



6. D. nudicaule T. & G. Eed Larkspur. Stems 1 ft. high or 

 more, few-leaved or quite naked; leaves somewhat succulent, little 

 divided, the divisions with short obtuse lobes; racemes loose and 

 open; pedicels 2 to 3J in. long; calyx bright scarlet, 1 in. long; 

 petals partly or mostly yellow, the upper narrowly obovate, sharply 

 notched at summit, much larger than the small cleft lower ones; 

 follicles glabrous, divergent at summit. 



Banks of rivulets and high rocky summits: Santa Lucia Mountains 

 to the region of San Francisco Bay, Napa Valley, Yacaville and 

 northward. . Apr. 



5. CLEMATIS L. Virgin's Bowek. 

 Stems woody at base, climbing by aid of the petioles of the opposite 

 leaves. Sepals 4, valvate in the bud, white and petal-like. Petals 

 none. Stamens numerous. Aohenes numerous in a head, the styles 

 persistent as hairy or plumose tails, very conspicuous in fruit. 

 (Ancient name, from Greek klema, a twig.) 



Leaflets 3; flowers large, solitary or 3 together . . . . . 1. C. lasiantlia. 



Leaflets 5 to 7; flowers smaller, in pauicles. . . '. . . . 2. C. liffusticifolia. 



1. C. lasiantha Nutt. Pipe-stem. Large-flov^erbd Clematis. 

 Branchlets and sepals tomentose-pubescent, the foliage less so; leaves 

 trifoliolate, elliptic to orbicular in outline, truncate or rounded at 

 "base, above 3-lobed and coarsely toothed, 1 to 2 in. long; flowers 

 polygamous, solitary or 3 together, on bibracteolate peduncles 2 in. 

 long, 1} to 2 J in. in diameter; sepals broadly oblong; achenes 2 lines 

 long, supporting a tail 1 in. long or more, the fruit of one flower 

 forming a head-like cluster 2 to 2J in. broad. 



In the hills, clambering over low shrubs and often illuminating 

 canon sides with its profusion of flowers. Coast Eanges; Santa Chira 

 Co.; San Mateo Co.; Marin Co.; Berkeley; Napa" Valley; Gates' 



