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* DELPHINIUM montanum. 



Mountain Larkspur. 



POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Ranunculace^. 

 DELPHINIUM. Suprd, vol. 14. fol. 1192 



D. montanum ; petiolis basi non dilatatis, foliis pubescentibus 5-lobatis : lobis 

 basi cuneatis trifidis incisis, racemo simplici, bracteis calyclbus capsulisque 

 pubescentibus, calcare inflexo. De Cand. prodr. 1 . 55. 



D. hirsutum. Roth, beitr, 88. 



D. elatum. All. pedem. n. 1504. 



cies of 

 There are in this country many beautiful spe 



Delphinium, about which little is known except to mere 

 Botanists. They have been little cultivated, and never 

 figured ; and, to the great mass of the lovers of plants, are 

 as new as if they had never been introduced. I propose to 

 bring them by degrees into notice by the assistance of the 

 Botanical Register, feeling sure that in so doing I shall be 

 rendering a service to both Horticulture and Botany. For 

 wliat can be more graceful than the tall slender stems of many 

 species of Delphinium, or more perfect than the form of their 

 dissected leaves, whicli no insects dare touch, or more agree- 

 able than the rich blue, whether deep or pale, of their 

 singular flowers ? what is there more easy of cultivation, and 

 more perennially durable ? and what species of well-known 

 hardy plants are more in need of figures to illustrate them ? 



• See folio 1503. 

 VOL. XXIIf. 



