DELPHI'NIUM GRANDIFLO'RUM. 



LARGE-FLOWERED LARKSPUR. 

 Class. Order. 



POLYANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 



Natural Order, 



RANUNCULACEJE. 



No. 29. 



The appellation applied to this genus has proved 

 less mutable under the hand of science than many 

 others, though we are strongly inclined to believe 

 that it has usurped the name of another tribe. The 

 delphinium or Greek DELPHiNioNof Dioscorides, 

 received its name from the fancied resemblance of 

 its flower bud to a dolphin. Any one who will 

 compare the unopened flowers of the several species 

 of delphinium and aconitum, will readily observe, 

 that the latter bear a much stronger similitude than 

 the former, to that fish. 



The beautiful double variety of Delphinium gran- 

 diflorum, so well known, and generally called the 

 Siberian Larkspur, is an offspring of the plant be- 

 fore us ; and is increased by division. 



The present one may be increased by dividing 

 the roots in the usual season ; or by seeds, which 

 are freely produced. They may be sown either in 

 autumn or spring, but those sown at the former time 

 will produce the strongest plants. These should be 

 kept thin and free from weeds during the summer ; 

 and, not later than October, be transplanted for 

 flowering. 



8 Hort. Kew.2, v.3, 320. 



