DELPHINIUM. 
more than a foot at the most in height, with large and rounded hairy 
flowers of pale blue in a loose and long-peduncled corymb. The 
D. brunonianum of gardens is usually of a deep and very sombre 
purplish black. 
D. carolinianum is a beautiful American species from which D. 
azureum has been separated. It grows about a foot and a half, and 
has big flowers of blue. D. Penhardii, being its counterpart in pure 
white, was long regarded as a variety, but now is raised to specific 
rank. 
D. carporum, a most beautiful and strange rare prize from the 
Pacific Rockies. Its hairy many-cleft leaves are all huddled at the 
base, and then arises a foot-high velvety stem, undivided, carrying 
a rather close spike of more or less densely hairy-petalled flowers 
of white and pink, with the spur sticking straight up behind at right 
angles to each. 
D. cardinale is a giant in stature and a freak in colour. It is 
usually about a yard high, but can be more than twice as much, 
with noble helmets of glowing metallic scarlet that open widely out, 
unlike the pinched nightcaps of the frailer and smaller D. nudicaule. 
This should have a specially hot and well-drained place in light rich 
soil, being a Californian ; and seed should always be watched for. 
D. caucasicum is only some 4 or 5 inches in height, with hairy, 
leathery leaves cloven in threes, and then, on long footstalks, the 
most lovely large clear-blue flowers with purple outside and white 
eyes, almost nestling above the tuft of foliage. Altogether beautiful 
in port and colour. From the highest slopes of Kasbek, &c., 14,000 
to 15,000 feet. See Appendix for its cousin, D. tanguticum, 
D. Cockerellit is a fine handsome species from South Colorado, 
from 2 to 4 feet high, tawny with sticky fulvous down, and making a 
big bush of leafage above which go towering the spreading graceful 
pyramids of scantly furnished sprays, the blooms being large and 
ample of outline, very veiny and of a brilliant purple. 
D. coelestinum, from Eastern Szechuan, is one of the queens of 
the race. It stands near D. coerulewm, and has very finely-divided 
leaves, and spires, simple or branching, of especially grand and lovely 
flowers of dazzling azure, loosely arranged upon the boughs so that 
all their beauty can be seen. 
D. coeruleum is found up to some 17,000 feet in Tibet and Sikkim, 
—a glory for the garden, freely branching, and yet not more than a 
foot high at the outside measurement, with leaves slashed into strip-like 
thongs, and splendid blossoms of pale clear blue seeming almost to 
be carried solitary in that pyramid of beauty. 
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