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RANUNCULUS CANUS 

 b mts. (Parish 1542). 



X Lax or weak stemmed, petals 6-15 

 herbage hirsute or pubescent. 



The West American Scientist, 

 Benth. 



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ovaries several-ovuled, becoming point- 

 ed several-seeded follicles in fruit. 

 Glabrous perennial branching herbs, 

 with 2-3-ternately compound leaves, the 



RANUNCULUS CALIFORNICUS Benth. leaflets lobed; fl showy, terminating the 



Erect or nearly so, 12-18 in. high, more or less branches, 



pilose: radical leaves commonly pinnately ter- A q UIIjEGIA TRUNCATA Fisch. & Mey. 

 nate, leaflets laciniately 3-7 lobed: flu 5-10 lines 



in diam. with 10-14 narrowly obovate petals, & Genus DELPHINIUM Tournefort. 



j shorter reflexed sepals: akenes much flattened. Larkspur: Cal. species are all perennial with 



with sharp edges, nearly 2 lines long; beak short showy fl: sepals 5, colored, petaloid, very ir- 



' * curved: heads compact, ovate or globular. regular, the upper one prolonged backwards 



This Californian buttercup is the most abun- at the base into a long spur : petals 2-4, irreg- 



i dant species of the ger us in the state, 'where ular; stamens many, pistils 1-5; fr of 1-5 de- 

 low gra°sy hills are often y-llow wiih the shin- hiscent, many seeded follicles. Erect herbs, 

 ingflsin early spring.' Cuyamaca mountains, with palmately-cleft. lobed, or dissected 

 Var. LATILOBUS Gray. 



The common, coarse-leaved, more 

 robust foim. 



leaves, and racemose fl. 

 *Blue (at least not red) fl. 



DELPHINIUM CONSOLIDA Linn. 

 DELPHINIUM DECORUM Fisch-Mey. 

 Very handsome Jark indigo blue fl, js 



RANUNCULUS HEBFCAPPUS Hook. & Arn. 



Slender, 3-18 in. high, erect or procumbent: 

 lower leaves ternate or 3-parter 1 , leaflets cuneate north to Mendocino county, 

 at base & 2-3-lobed, upper ones more divided: DELPHINIUM PARISHII A. Gray. 

 akenes few, papillose-scabrous, with hooked DELPHINIUM PARRYI A Gray. 

 hairs: fls minute, petals 5, aline or less long. DELPHINIUM SIMPLEX Dough 



Var. PUSILLUS S. Wats., Bot Calif, j, 9. 1880. DELPHINIUM VARIEGATUM T. & G 



'Stems very slender < r ri ii form, weak & ascend- 

 ing or proi umbeut, 3-6 in. long: leaves reuiform 

 crenately 5- lobed or parted.'— Watson. 



Rbongarm Ge Erythea3:54 



Var douglasii Davis Or d— reported by Rose. 



**Red flowered. 

 DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE Torr-Gray. 

 %-i° high or more; Mendocino county 



DELPHINIUM CARDINALE Hook. 



jv ew _15 ft. high, stout, nearly glabrous: 

 leaves large, 5-7-lobed nearly to the base, the 

 'Baneberry. i-epals 4-6, nearly equal, petal- divisions deeply 3-5-cleft with narrow long- 

 like, falling fl' f-arly. P. -tabs 4-10, >mall . gta- acuminate segments: fls bright scarlet with 

 mens numerous. Pistils single; st'gma sessile, yellow center, large, produced in showy pan- 

 2 1ooed. Fruit a mauy-.-eeded berry. Seeds i C les. Quite hardy. 



Genus ACTAEA Linnaeus. 



smooth, flattened, packed horizontally iu2rows. 

 Perennial herbs, wilh 2-3-ternately compound 

 leaves. Boot usually tuberous or thickened. 

 Fls in a terminal short raceme. Species per- 

 haps 2, belonging io (he cooler regions of the 

 l^orthern llemisohere.'— Wats Bot. Cabf. i, 12. 



ACTAEA SPICATA Linn. 

 Var * ROUT A T< rrey. 

 A. argn ta Nutt.— Rare in C ilif .— Alaska. 



den us AQUILEGIA T«urnefort. 



Gi-nus PAEONIA Linnaeus. 



PAEONIA BROWNII Dougl. 

 PAEONIA CALIFORNICA Nutt 



foothills] d b— usually distributed as brownil 

 — perhaps running together, da 1, cv 4 58 



Genus* CROSSOSOMA Nuttall. 



C. B1GELOV1I Watson. 



Genus ANEMONE Linnaeus. 

 A. MULTIFIDA l'C. 



BEItBEKJDACEAE. 

 Genus BERBERIS Linnaeus. 



Columbine: sepals 5, regular, colored 

 and petal-like deciduous. Petals 5, all 

 alike, with a short, spreaiing- lip, and 

 produced back wards into a long tubular BERBERIS DICTYOTA Jepson. 



b s,; - "T erous ' the r onts ssss ™n. r; y 



long & exserted, the inner ones reduced BERBERIS PINNA TA Lagasca. 

 to thin scales; pistils 5; styles slender; BERBERIS REPENS Iindl. 



