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DELPHINIUM STAPH 
S AGRIA. 
T 
PALMATED LARKSPUR, 
Or, STAVESACRE. 
SYNO NYMA. Staphifagria. Pbann. Lond. &f Edinb. Baub. 
Pin. p. 324 
7°S 
Dod. Pempt. p. 366. Gerard. Emac. p. 495 
///. 
Park. Tt 
J 
£ 
; 
.2 2 2. 
y. Baub. H, 
:a 
, R 
p. 64 
Delphinium Platani folio, Staph 
428 
Aconitum 
urens 
R 
fi 
agria dictum. Tourn. In/}. p % 
Dre cseruleo magno, 
fol 
ft 
Stanhis agria dictum 
Pluk . Ahnag. p* 2>$J 
Clafs Polyandria. Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 6 
1. 
Effl Gen. Cb. 
Cal. 
o 
Petal 
a 
5 
Neclariwn bifidum, poftice cor 
nutum. 
Sili 
qua' 3 
s. 1. 
Cb. 
D. nedariis tetraphyllis petalo brevioribus, foiiis palmatis : 
lobis obtufis. 
THE root is biennial 
ftem is downy, fm 
purplifh, and rifes from one to two feet in heig 
palmated, dividing into five or feven lobes, which 
th 
eel:, fimpie, 
2 leaves are 
flianed 
— 
d, downy, and of a pale g 
colour : the leaf ftalt 
ife 
g, ftrong, downy, of the colour of the ftem, from which they 
h 
d 
are 
radually fh 
towards the top of the 
plant, fo as to give the whole a regular conical fhape: the flowers appear 
y are large, bluifli or purplifh, ftand upon long footftalks 
and terminat 
KS 
t h c 
ft 
Ik 
in an 
compofed of five 
op 
fpike 
th 
is no 
caly 
th 
uppermoft is 
& 
nded backward 
fhaped fpreading petals, of which the 
fo as to form a hollow 
commonly divided i 
fup 
four 
th 
horn-like projection : a the nedarium is 
leaves, which are lefs than thofe of the 
narrow, fmall, erect, and at the bafe drawn out' into fpurs like that of 
the petal, in which they are both inclofed ; the other two are roundifri, 
In feme flowers we obferved two fpurs, in others but one, and the ne&arium varied 
accordingly. 
No. 
3 1 
5 O 
and 
