
BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae. 
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either white, with a bluish or greenish spot on the tip of 
each sepal, or very pale pink, with a purplish or bluish 
spot. The dull, yellowish-green leaves are rather thickish 
and downy, the pods erect. This grows in dryish places, 
at moderate altitudes, and freely around Yosemite. 
rikid Leuicawss A splendid flower when at its best, 
Delphinium bicolor {TOM six inches to a foot and a half tall, 
Blue with a smooth stem, reddish below, and 
.Spring, summer smooth, bright-green leaves, pale on the 
Northwest and 
Se under side, round in general outline, the 
lower ones with long, reddish leaf-stalks 
sheathing the stem, the roots thick but not tuberous. 
The beautiful flowers are sometimes an inch and a half 
across, on long, rather spreading pedicels, few or many, in 
a long loose cluster, the buds slightly downy. The general 
effect of the flowers is deep bright-blue, but when we 
examine them more closely we find that the slightly 
woolly spurs are purplish, the blue sepals have on the back 
protuberances, which are pinkish on the front and greenish 
on the back, the two, small, upper petals are white, 
delicately striped with purple, and the lower ones, which 
are fuzzy with tufts of white down and two-cleft, are deep 
pinkish-purple; sometimes the whole flower is much paler 
in color. The anthers are large and green at first, be- 
coming small.and yellow, their threadlike filaments curling. 
This grows on dry hills. D.Pérryi, of California, is about 
two feet tall, similar in coloring, but even handsomer, with 
a cluster nearly a foot long, closely crowded with beautiful 
flowers, each an inch and a half across. The lower leaves 
are slashed nearly to the center, into seven divisions, each 
with three, long, narrow lobes. 
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