DELPHINIUM. 
D. Penhardii. See under C. carolinianum. 
D. Pylzowu from Kansu, is only about 6 or 10 inches high, yet has 
violet-blue flowers about twice the size of D. coerulewm’s, and carried 
in sprays almost like umbels. See Appendix. 
D. scopulorum lives by the stream-sides in the mountains of Cali- 
fornia, and can be some 4 feet high with slender unbranching spires of 
indigo above the rather glaucous foliage, very finely divided. 
D. Souliez has lucid perfectly smooth green leaves, cut and cut again, 
from which issues a hairy, downy spike of 6 inches, carrying a dense . 
array of blossoms with the upper petals pale and the lower ones dark. 
(From dry places in Szechuan.) 
D. suave is blandly beautiful. The leaves are much gashed, and a 
great number of stems are sent up, about half a foot or a foot in height, 
undivided, and carrying a generous number of large pale-blue flowers 
with the two lower petals creamy white. (Kurrum valley in Afghan- 
istan, 7500 to 10,500.) 
D. sulfureum, Bois, and Hausskn., is not D. Zalil, as pretended, but 
an annual or nearly annual species, or subspecies, to D. ochroleucum, q.v. 
—handsome pale-yellow things both, to decorate the late summer 
border for a year; but by no means deserving the name they usurp, 
or any other comparison with D. Zalil. 
D. tanguticum has all the neat lovely habit of D. caucasicum, not 
exceeding some 4 inches or so, but the flowers are even larger and 
finer. See Appendix. 
D. tatsiense (sic., for surely it should be always Tatsienense and 
Sutchuenense, the forms to which the termination -ensis is affixed 
being Sutchuen and Tatsien, not Tats and Sutch) is a tall, branch- 
ing, hispid, and airily elegant species, producing in summer the most 
noble pure azure flowers with specially long spurs on finely loosely- 
branching spikes of some 12 or 18 inches. Its nearest cousin is D. 
grandiflorum, of which, however, it does not seem to possess either the 
hardiness or permanence. At least in the North it has a way of some- 
times vanishing softly and silently away like a snark, from even the 
best drained of beds. 
D. trolliifolium is of a different kidney altogether. This appears 
very early in the year, for about the end of March the specially green, 
hearty, fleshy foliage begins to sprout, and in April are shooting the 
spikes of a foot or so, set with large helmets of a luscious and velvety 
dark sky-blue with an eye of white. This is of quite easy cultureand 
much more trustworthy. 
D. vestitum is a superb species from the Himalaya at considerable 
elevations, making in the garden a fine mound of handsome hairy 
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