BUTTERi !UP FAMILY. 



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upper leaves pedatcly 3 to 5 or rarely 7-parted into linear-oblong 

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

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

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

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

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

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



Common in Open woods: Vaca Hills, Piatt; Napa Valley; Berkeley. 

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

 Raceme 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 \ to § in. long, the slender spur of equal 

 length; follicles at maturity \ to £ in. long, almost always widely 

 recurving. 



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



6. D. nudicaule T. & G. Red 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. lon<;-; 

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

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

 follicles glabrous, divergent at summit. 



Banks of rivulets and high rocky summits: Santa Lucia Mountains 

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

 northward. Apr. 



5. CLEMATIS L. Virgin's Bower. 

 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. Achenes 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. lasiantha. 



Leaflets 5 to 7; flowers smaller, in panicles 2. C. ligusticifotia. 



1. C. lasiantha Nutt. Pipe-stem. Large-flowered 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 bibraeteolate peduncles 2 in. 

 long, 1} to 2\ 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 2.V in. broad. 



In the hills, clambering over low shrubs and often illuminating 

 canon sides with its profusion of flowers. Coast Ranges; Santa Clara 

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



