218 Notices of new and beautiful Plants 



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Dicotyledonous, Polypetalous, Plants. 

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£)ELPHI'NIUM 

 montaiium De Cand. syn: D. hirsiitum Roth. D. elatum All. Mountain Larkspur. A 

 hardy perennial plant ; growing from five to six feet high ; with blue flowers ; appearing 

 in the autumn ; propagated by seed and division of the roots ; a native of the Alps, 

 ^ot Reg., 1036. 



This is the well known bee larkspur of our gardens; and al- 

 though it has been an inhabitant of some of them for many years, 

 it does not seem to be near so extensively cxiltivated as from its 

 beauty we should suppose it would. Dr. Lindley remarks, in 

 figuring this species, that " there are in this country [England] 

 many beautiful species of i)elphinium, about which httle is known, 

 except to mere botanists. They have been little cultivated, and 

 never figured, and to the great mass of the lovers of plants are 

 as new as if they had never been introduced." He therefore 

 proposes to bring them gradually into notice by occasionally pub- 

 lishing a figure of some of the species or varieties in the Botan- 

 ical Register. "For," he continues, "what can be more 

 graceful than the tall slender stems of many species of Del- 

 phinium, or more perfect than the form of their dissected leaves, 

 which no insects dai-e touch, or more agreeable tints than the rich 

 blue, whether deep or pale, of their singular flowers.'' what is there 

 more easy of cultivation, and more perennially durable.'' And 

 what species of well known hardy plants are more in need of 

 figures to illustrate them.''" Among the larkspurs, in their single 

 state, tliis is probably the most beautiful; the plants grow very 

 strong, to the height, frequently, of six or more feet, and the 

 tall stems are terminated with fine spikes or racemes of blue 

 flowers. It is a native of the Alps of Central Europe: De 

 Candolle says it inhabits the valleys of mountains neai'ly as high 

 up as the limits of the trees: it is also common on the mountains 

 of Switzerland. No plant can be of easier cultivation, or more 



