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* DELPHINIUM azureum. 



Sky-blue Larhpur. 



POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Ranunculace^. 

 DELPHINIUM. SuprH, vol. 14. fol. 1 192. 



D. azuTeum ; petiolis basi vix dilatatis, foliis 3-5-partitis multifidis, lobis llne- 

 aribus, raceino stricto, petalis omnibus apice barbatis, inferioribus villosis- 

 simis. DeCcmd. prodr. 1.54. 



D. azureum. Mich.fl. bor. amer. 1. 314. Deless. ic. select. 1. 1. 60. 



The seeds from which the plant now figured was raised 

 were collected in California, for the Horticultural Society, 

 by Mr. Douglas ; the species would, therefore, appear to 

 range quite across the North American continent. It is very 

 like the pale variety of D. grandiflorum, called chinense, 

 but is readily known by its lower petals being deeply cleft 

 into two lobes, much more hairy, and smaller. 



The specimens from Mr. Douglas had flowers of a dirty 

 pink upon a whitish ground, with a small green depression 

 below the points of the sepals. A much prettier variety was 

 sent me by Mr. W. Garvie, Nurseryman, Stratford, Essex, to 

 whom it had been communicated by Mr. Murray of the 

 Glasgow Garden, where it was raised from Mr. Drummond's 

 Texas seeds. In that plant the flowers were a pale blue, 

 corresponding with the specific name, and the leaves 

 broader ; a leaf and flower of this are figured at No. 2. 



I am not aware of the existence of any coloured figure 

 of this species, which is scarcely deserving of cultivation 

 except in Botanic Gardens. 



• See folio 1503. 



