Tas. 4887. 
DELPHINIUM carpIna.e. 
Scarlet-flowered Larkspur. 
Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEH.—POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx deciduus, petaloideus, irregularis, sepalo nempe superiore in 
calear deorsum producto. -Petala 4; 2 superiora basi in appendicibus intra 
calear contentis producta. De Cand. 
DELPHINIUM cardinale ; glabra elata, foliis (ratione plante) amplis longe petio- 
latis digitato-quinquepartitis laciniis cuneato-lanceolatis simplicibus vel 3-5- 
fidis, segmentis longe-acuminatis, caulinis paucis sensim minoribus simpli- 
cioribus, panicula elongata, floribus intense coccineis, sepalis late ovatis 
obtusis, petali inferioris limbo bifido duobusque interioribus versus apicem 
pilosis, calcare rectiusculo floris longitudine, ovariis glabris. 
Blue or purple or white Zarkspurs are familiar to us in our — 
gardens. We have now the pleasure of making known a species 
of Delphinium equalling if not surpassing any other in the size 
and symmetry of the plant, and excelling in the brilliancy of co- 
Jour of the flower, and that as rich a scarlet as can well be looked 
upon. It is one of the many novelties detected by Mr. Wn. 
Lobb in California, and introduced to our gardens by Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Exotic Nurseries. 
Treated as a hardy annual, it cannot fail to be a great favourite 
with all lovers of handsome flowers. The United States Ex- 
ploring Expeditions have likewise met with this rarity on their 
overland journeys to California, and specimens we know are in 
Dr. Torrey’s possession, but the plant has not been published. 
Our plants were in great perfection in August. pe 
- Dzscr. Cultivated specimens are from two to three feet high, 
a good deal taller than our native dried specimens. The /eaves 
are for the most part radical, and these on very long, stout, terete 
petioles or stalks, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant, 
more than a span across, digitately divided, almost to the base, 
into five primary spreading cuneate-lanceolate segments, strongly 
nerved : the circumference represents a cordate outline: the seg- 
ments are either simple and much acuminated and narrow, or 
DECEMBER Ist, 1855. 
