340 JVoiices of neic and beautiful Plants 



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Dicotyledonous, Polypetalous, Plants. 

 Hanunculdcece. 



Z)ELPIiraiUM 

 intertiiedimii .^ifnn Variable Larkspur. A hnrdy perennial plant; prowin? six or seven 



feet higti ; with blue flowers ; appealing in June ; propagated by seeds and division of the 



roots. Bot. Re<i., J963. 

 £>. alpinuin of il'alilstciii and Kitaibel, from Hunjiary, D. elAtum of many authors, Z>. pal- 



niatifiiiuiii of De CuiidoUe, in part, and probably of some others. 



" One of the commonest of all perennials in the botanic gar- 

 dens, [of England,] where it grows six or seven feet higii, in 

 rich soil, and forms a beautiful object, if allowed to spring among 

 bushes which partially support the branches, and prevent their 

 being broken by the wind." Described with a tall branching 

 stein, glaucous at the upper part, and either downy or smooth 

 towards the ground; leaves having a palmated figure, with from 

 three to seven deep incised lobes, and either hairy or perfectly 

 smooth, their petiole being round; smooth, glaucous, branched or 

 simple racemes of flowers, of a blue color, which is either deep, 

 or so pale as to be almost white; and a total absence of hairs 

 from all parts connected with the flowers, except the disk of the 

 tvvo-lobed petals. These characters include a variety of plants 

 found from the Pyrenees to Kamschatka, designated by botanists 

 under various names, but which all belong to one and the same spe- 

 cies. Dr. Lindley states that botanic gardens swarm with spe- 

 cific names, all belonging to little varieties, " which those who 

 judge of the vegetable kingdom by its appearance in the mas- 

 querade warehouse of a gardener, or who are not aware that a 

 difference and a distinction must not be confounded, actually be- 

 lieve to be so many natural species." To figure all such would 

 be a waste of time and paper; and only those which are striking 

 enough to render a mistake about them probable will be given. 

 It should be grown together with the montanum and the other 

 well known species and varieties. (Bot. Reg., June.) 



