Of such plants Delphinium montanum is one of the 
handsomest. It grows 5 or 6 feet high, it is covered with 
soft green down, and its flowers, which are a pale blue, are 
compactly arranged in simple or branched racemes, some- 
times as much as two feet long. Its roots are perennial, and 
it produces seeds abundantly. 
lts native country is the Alps of central Europe. De 
Candolle says it inhabits the vallies of mountains nearly as 
high up as the limits of trees; as in the valley of Eynes in 
the Pyrenees, on the Alps of Provence and Switzerland, and 
in the Appennines. Haller speaks of it as extremely common 
on the mountains of Switzerland, especially on Mounts La 
Varaz and Enzeindu, Lioson, Taveyanaz, Prapioz, Audon, 
and elsewhere. 
With us it is a hardy perennial, growing vigorously 
among bushes, and flowering in August. The accompanying 
drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society. 
