~ and are ornamented near the claw with a yellow flightly bearded 
fpot. Stamens many: filaments flat, narrowed upwards, and 
reflexed : antbers ovate, attached by the back, black with white 
pollen. Germens three, approximate, filky. Cap/ules three, erett, 
villous. Sy 
In the common Larkfpur (Delphinium Confolida) the four 
petals of the ne@tarium are united into one and terminate behind 
in a fpur fheathed by that of the upper petal: in all the fpecies 
thefe parts vary materially in form and number. In this and 
the related genus Aconitum, JUsstEU confiders the outer 
petals as calyx, and gives the name of petals to what Linn aus 
calls nedaria. 
A double variety of this fpecies is very common in our 
gardens, and much admired for the {plendid blue colour of its 
flowers. But the plant in its natural fingle ftate has been a 
defideratum, and has been only lately introduced from Ruffia, 
by Meffrs, Wuttiey, Brams, and Miune, of the Fulham 
Nurfery. We have likewife feen it at the Exotic Nurfery, 
King’s-Road. Native of Siberia; a hardy perennial; propa- 
gated by parting its roots and by feed. 
