POLYANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Delphinium. 29 



1. P. corallina. Entire-leaved Piony. 



Leaves twice ternate ; leaflets ovate, undivided, smooth. 

 Follicles downy, recurved. 



P.corallina. Retz.OhsJasc.Z.ZA. fVilld. Sp.PLv. 2. ]22]. Engl. 



Bot. V. 22. t. 1513. Comp.ed.4.9D. Ait. H. Kew, ed.2. v.3. 3\o. 



DeCand. Stjst.v. 1.388. 

 P. officinalis /3. Linn. Sp. PL 747. Mill. Illustr.t.47 . 

 P. mas. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 26.5./. Camer. Epit. 657./. Dod. 



Pempt. 194./. Ger. Em. 980 / Lol). Ic. 684./. 685./. 

 Pseonia. Pabnberg Sert.386.f. 



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. May, June. 



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

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

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

 permost leaf is sometimes ternate only, or simple ; rarely pin- 

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

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

 purple stigmas. Seed-vessels internally reddish and polished. 

 Seeds black and shining^ the inters^persed abortive ones angular, 

 scarlet. 



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

 cinalis, the fcemina of old authors, and scarcely ever seen dou- 

 ble, as the latter usually is. 



271. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Linn. Gen. 274. Juss. 234. FLBr.D77. Tourn.t. 241. Lam. 

 t.482. Gartnt.65. 



Nat. Ord. see 7i. 270. 



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

 spreading ; the upper one extended behind into a long, 

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

 with claws, various in various species. Nectary divided, 

 ot'l or 2 sessile k'aves,j)laced in front within the row of 

 ])etals, on the upper .side, extended behind in the form 

 of a tube, contained in the spur of the upj)ernu)st })etal. 

 Filam. numerous, awl-shaped, dilated at the base, nuich 

 shorter than the corolla, directed upwartls. Anth. round- 

 ish, small, erect. Germ, superior, 3 or 1, or 5, ovate, 

 each terminating in a stijle shorter than the stamens. 



