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DELPHINIUM GRANDIFLORUM. GREAT- 
FLOWERED LARKSPUR. 
SSE IE ETE EEE EEE EEE OR 
Clafs and Order. 
PoLyYANDRIA TRIGYNIA, 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 0. » Petala 5.  Neéar. 2—4-fidum, poftice cornutum. 
Silique 3 {eu 1. : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
DELPHINIUM ¢grandiflorum ; (tricapfulare) ne€tariis  tetra- 
phyllis: labellis orbiculatis fubbarbatis: unguibus appendi- 
culatis, foliis lineari-multipartitis. 
DELPHINIUM grandifforum ; ne@tariis diphyllis: labellis in- 
tegris, floribus fubfolitariis, foliis compofitis lineari-multi- 
partitis, Sp. Pl. 749. Willd. 2. p.1228. Miller. Ic. 2. 
p. 167. ¢. 250. f. 1. 
DELPHINIUM lufitanicum glabrum, aconitifolio. Rolof 
Hort. Kraufian. 61. t, 3. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem ere€t, fmooth, fomewhat an- 
gular, and dichotomoufly branched. Radical leaves multipartite : 
fegments narrow, channelled, pale underneath; lower cauline 
leaves fimilar; floral 2—g-partite, or even fimple. Flowers 
alternate on peduncles varioufly lengthened, diftant, of a fine 
azure colour {potted with a dull red. Petals nine in two feries : 
five outer ones ovate, four of them equal, the upper one larger 
and lengthened behind into a rugofe fpur with a bifid point : of the 
four inner petals (neéfarium) two are very {mall, flethy, upright, 
rigid, channelled : two are nearly orbicular, with an yrs =P claw, 
at the bafe of whichis a fmall hooked appendix; thefe are re- 
flefted fo as to cover completely the organs of weauar 
