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DELPHINIUM cheilanthum. 
Doroninsk Larkspur. 
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POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA; (rectidone PENTAGYNIA 2) 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. Decand. syst. nat. 1, 129, Div. I. Ra- 
nunculacez Vere. Tribus IV. Helleborez. 
DELPHINIUM. Supra vol. 4. fol. 327. 
Sect. III. Delphinastrum. Ovaria 3 interdüm 5. Calcar elongatum, in- 
terius dipetalum; Petala 4 libera, 2 inferiora stipitata, limbo intüs 
barbato in unicá specie integro, sapissimé bifido. Bractee 1 sub pedicello, 
2 secús pedicellum sepissime opposite flori contigua. Radices perennes. 
Subdiv. I. Petalorum inferiorum limbo integro. 
D. cheilanthwn, caule erecto ramoso, foliis 5-partitis, lobis oblongis acumi- 
natis subtrifidis subdentatis, petalis calyce brevioribus, 2 inferioribus 
limbo oblique inflexo (sub-) integro (non exact? integro sed apice obtuse 
; emarginato aut viz ac ne vix bidentato), capsulis reticulatim pictis pubes- 
centibus,  Decand. syst. nat. 1. 352, 545. 
Delphinium cheilanthum. Fischer in litt. (fide Decandollai). 
Delphinium daouricum. Steven ined. (fide Decand. ). 
Delphinium foliis hirsutis. Gmel. A. sib. 4. 187. t. 76. 
Species distinctissima! Omnium longè pulcherrima! Folia hirsuta 
(Gmel) superiora brevitór petiolata 5-partita, lobis oblongis subtrinerviis 
apice trifidis acuminatis lateralibus subbifidis ; flores DELPHINIX grandiflori 
magnitudine; calycis sepala (foliola) ovalia apice calloso submucronato ; 
calcar rectum sepalis equale; petala 2 superiora ut in DELPHINIO grandi- 
floro, inferiora breviter stipitata, ad apicem stipitis inflexa limbo ovato ob- 
tusissimo apice emarginato aut vix ac ne vix bidentato prop? basin ciliato in 
medio disci barbato. (Fischer). Capsule tres pubescentes, membranacee, 
subinflate, ad dorsum venis nigricantibus anastomosantibus reticulate, stylis 
persistentibus mucronate. Species omnino media inter DELPHINIUM 
grandiflorum et alia Delphinastra, Decand. locc. citt. 
A very distinct richly coloured species of dwarfish 
growth, recently introduced, and not mentioned in any 
record of our gardens. First published by M. Decandolle 
from samples collected in that part of Siberia which lies 
beyond Lake Baikal, and also in the vicinity of Doroninsk 
in the province of Daüria. Seed has been lately procured 
from the gardens at Moscow through the means of Dr. 
Fischer, and the plant raised in several of the nurseries 
about London, where it is treated as a hardy perennial and 
flowers about Juue. 
The species does not come strictly under the head of 
those with the limb of the lower petals entire or even, though 
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