POLYANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Delphinium. 99 



ing along the inner side. Seeds numerous, oval polished, 

 ranged along the edges of the follicle. 

 Mostly herbaceous, with fleshy perennial 7'oofs. Leaves 

 alternate, once or twice ternate, entire or cut. Fl. soli- 

 tary, large, stalked, crimson or white, often double. Ge)- 

 mejis usually multiplied by culture. Abortive seeds co- 

 loured. 



1. P. corallina. Entire-leaved Piony. 



Leaves twice ternate; leaflets ovate, undivided, smooth. 

 Follicles downy, recurved. 



P. corallina. Ttetz. Obs.fasc.3. 34, IVilld. Sp. PL v. 2. 1221. Engl. 



Bot. V. 22. t. 1513. Comp. ed. 4. 95. Ait. H. Kew. ed. 2. r. 3. 315. 



DeCand. Syst. v. 1 . 388. 

 P. officinalis (3. Linn. Sp. PL 747. MilL Illustr. t. 47. 

 P. mas. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 265./. Camer. Epit. Qb7.f. Dod. 



Pempt.l04.f. Ger.Em.QSO.f. Lo6. /c. 684. /. 685./. 

 Paeonia. Palmberg Sert. 386./. 



On islands in the river Severn. 



Abundantly in the rocky clefts of the Steep Holmes, in the Severn. 

 Mr. F. B. Wright. On a rabbit-warren about 2 miles from Graves- 

 end, according to Gerarde ; but no other person has found it 

 there. 



Perennial. Mmj, June. 



Root fleshy, knobbed. Herb smooth, about 2 feet high. Stems 

 simple, round, leafy, polished, reddish. Leaves twice ternate ; 

 leaflets elliptical, undivided, of a dark shining green. The up- 

 perniost leaf is sometimes ternate only, or simple 3 rarely pin- 

 nate, as in EngL Bot. and Miller. Fl. about 4 inches broad, 

 crimsouj with yellow anthers. Germens 2, 3, or 4, white with 

 purple stigmas. Seed-vessels internally reddish and polished. 

 -Seec/s black and shining j the interspersed abortive ones angular, 

 scarlet. 



A very handsome plant, far less common in gardens than P. offi- 

 cinalis, Xhefcemina of old authors, and scarcely ever seen dou- 

 ble, as the latter usually is. 



271. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Linn. Gen. 274. Juss. 234. FLBr.i)77. Tourn.t.24\. Lam. 

 t. 482. Gcertn. t. 65. 



Nat. Ord. see w. 270. 



Cal. none. Pet. 5, inferior, unequal, ranged in a circle, 

 spi'eading ; the upper one extended behind into a long, 

 tubular, straight, bluntish spur; the rest ovate-oblong, 



