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DELPHINIUM decorum. 
Pretty Larkspur. 
- Jd 
POLYANDRIA TRI-PENTAGYNIA. 
DELPHINIUM. Botanica! Register, vol. 14. fol. 1192. 
Sect. DELPHINASTRUM. Coh. Grumosa; petalorum laminá dilatatá bifida ; 
petiolis basi vix dilatatis; radice tuberoso-grumosá. Huc D. Menziesii, 
elegans, tricorne, Fischer § Meyer, Index tertius seminum, p. 33. 
D. decorum; pubescens, subglabrum, foliis tripartitis : segmentis lateralibus 
bifidis indivisisve, lobis oblongis tridentatis v. integerrimis, floralibus 
bracteisque suboblongis (plerumque) integris, calcare curvulo sepalorum 
longitudine, carpellis 3 divaricatis. Fisch. $ Mey. l. c. 
A pretty hardy perennial, raised by Mr. Cameron in the 
Botanical Garden, Birmingham, and communicated by him 
in June last. It is a native of New California, near the 
Russian settlement at Port Bodega, whence seeds were re- 
ceived by Dr. Fischer, the director of the Botanical Garden, 
St. Petersburgh, and by him communicated to the rest of 
Europe. 
In the third Index of seeds gathered in the Botanic Gar- 
den of St. Petersburgh the species is first mentioned, as being 
nearest in affinity to D. Menziesii and D. elegans, but clearly 
distinguished by the leaves. ‘The flowers were described as 
being showy, at first bluish violet, but afterwards violet 
purple. 
In the specimens sent from Birmingham the leaves were 
uniformly three-lobed, with the intermediate division ovate 
or oblong, acute and undivided, while the lateral divisions, 
placed at right angles to it, were often two-lobed, and some- 
times divided into several secondary segments in the posterior 
lobe. 
I am not aware that this requires any peculiar treatment, 
otherwise than that which is given to other perennial Lark- 
spurs. 
