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DELPHlNlUM (lecmum. 

 Pretty Larkspur. 



POLYANDRIA TRI-PENTAGYNIA. 

 DELPHINIUM. Botanical Register, vol. U.fol. 1192. 



Sect. Delphinastrum. Qoh.. Gnimosa ; petalonira lamina dilatata bifida ; 

 petiolis basi vix dilatatis; radice tuberoso-grumosa. Hue D. Menziesii, 

 elegans, tricorne, Fischer ^~ Meyer, Index tertius seminum, p. 33. 



D. decorum; pubescens, subglabrum, foliis tripartitis : segmeutis lateralibus 

 bifidis indivisisve, lobis oblongis tridentatis v. iiitegerrimis, floralibus 

 bracteisque suboblongis (plerumqiie) integris, calcare curvulo sepalorum 

 longitudine, carpellis 3 divaricatis. Fisch. ^ Mey. I. 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 showv, 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. 



