ORD. XXVI. Wultisilique. 471 
DELPHINIUM STAPHI- PALMATED LARKSPUR, 
SAGRIA., ; Or, STAVESACRE. 
ae ee EA ARES a OEE TI te AN LE CR 
S¥YNONYMA. Staphisagria. Pharm. Lond..& Edinb. Bauh. 
Pin. p.324. Dod. Pempt. p. 366. Gerard. Emac. p, 495.. Rati 
Hist. p. 706... Park. Theat. p..222. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 641. 
Delphinium Platani folio, Staphis agria dictum. Tourn. Inst. p. 
428. Aconitum urens Ricini fere foliis, flore caruleo magno, 
Staphis agria dictum. Pluk. Almag. p. 357. 
€lass Polyandria: Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 681. 
Ess. Gen. Ch... Cal. 0. Petala 5.  Nectarium bifidum, postice: 
cornutum.. Silique 3.8.1. 
Sp. Ch. D.nectariis tetraphyllis petalo brevioribus, foliis palmatis: 
lobis obiusis. = . 
THE root is biennial: the stem is downy, smooth, erect, simple, 
purplish, and rises from one to two feet in height: the leaves are 
palmated, dividing into five or seven lobes, which are ovate or 
lance-shaped, veined; downy, and of a pale green colour: the leaf 
stalks are long, strong, downy, of the colour of the stem, from 
which they arise alternately, and are gradually shorter towards the 
top of the plant, so as to give the whole a regular conical shape: 
the flowers appear in June; they are large, bluish or purplish, 
stand upon long footstalks, and terminate the stalk in an open 
spike: there is no calyx: the corolla is composed of five egg-* 
shaped spreading petals, of which the uppermost is extended back~ 
wards, so as to form a hollow spur or horn-like projection :* the 
nectarium is commonly divided into four leaves, which are less 
* Tn some flowers we observed two spurs, in-others but one, and the nectarinm . 
varied accordingly. 
