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* DELPHINIUM montánum. 
Mountain Larkspur. 
POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE. 
DELPHINIUM. Supra, vol..14. fol. 1192 
D. montanum; petiolis basi non dilatatis, foliis pubescentibus 5-lobatis : lobis 
basi cuneatis trifidis incisis, racemo simplici, bracteis calycibus capsulisque 
pubescentibus, calcare inflexo: De Cand. prodr. 1. 55. _ 
D. hirsutum. Roth. beitr. 88. 3 , 
D. elatum. All. pedem. n. 1504. 
There are in. this country many beautiful species of 
Delphinium, about. which little is known except to mere 
Botanists. They have been little cultivated, and never 
figured ; and, to the great mass of the lovers of plants, are 
as new as if they had never been introduced. | I propose to 
bring them by degrees into notice by the assistance of the 
Botanical Register, feeling sure that in so doing I shall be 
rendering a service to both Horticulture and Botany. For 
what can be more graceful than the tall slender stems of many 
species of Delphinium, or more perfect than the form of their 
dissected leaves, which no insects dare touch, or more agree- 
able than the rich blue, whether deep or pale, of their 
singular flowers? what is there more easy of cultivation, and 
more perennially durable ? and what species of well-known 
hardy plants are more in need of figures to illustrate them? 
* See folio 1503. 
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