RANUNCULACE^E 27 



DELPHINIUM L. LARKSPUR. 



* One ovary ; petals united. 



D. Consolida L. Annual. Almost glabrous. Stem slender, 8-18 in., 

 with spreading branches. Leaves multifid, with linear segments; bracts 

 simple and entire, linear. Spike short, few-flowered. Flowers deep blue, with 

 long spur. Follicles glabrous. Seeds black. 



Crops and fields. May-July. Occasional in both Departments. 



D. pubescens. DC. Annual, pubescent. Leaves multifid, with linear 

 segments. Bracts simple, 4 times shorter than the peduncle. Spike loose. 

 Flowers pale blue. Follicles obtuse, pubescent. Seeds greyish. 



Among crops. June, July. Near Lantosque, Frejus, Bandol, etc. 



D. Ajacis L. Annual, pubescent. Stem 10-18 in., slender. Leaves 

 multifid, lobes linear. Upper leaves sessile, lower petioled. Flowers blue, 

 white, or pink. Petals 2. Follicles acute, pubescent. 



In the crops. May-July. 



** 3-5 ovaries ; petals free. 



D. peregrinum L. Annual, finely pubescent. Lower leaves multifid, 

 with linear segments, upper ones entire. Follicles 3. Petals free, glabrous. 

 Flowers blue or white. 



Fields and hills; rare. June-July. Toulon, Saint Cyr. Ardoino's record from 

 Nice is excluded by Burnat. 



D. fissum Waldst. et Kit. Glabrous or hairy, 2-3 ft. high, robust. Leaves 

 cut into 5-7 linear lobes, trifid. Petioles dilated into a sheath at the base. 

 Flowers bright blue, at first often greenish, in long spikes, spur long and pointed. 

 Petals bifid, the 2 inferior downy at the base. Follicles 3-5. 



Rocky and shrubby places in the mountains ; rare. June, July. San Dal- 

 mazzo di Tenda, La Sainte Baume, Aiguines. 



D. Requienii DC. Annual, reaching a yard high. Leaves palmate, with 

 5-9 incised lobes. Bracts inserted below the middle of the erect pedicels. 

 Flowers blue, in long pubescent spikes. Follicles 3-5. Spur acute, 

 curved. 



Rocks and thickets, very rare. May-June. Only in France in the Isle of 

 Porquerolles, where it grows on the Medes rocks, and also rarely in woody places. 

 Also found in Corsica, Sardinia, and Balearic Isles. 



D. Staphisagfia L. Annual, pubescent in all its parts. Stem reaching a 

 yard high. Leaves palmate, with 5-9 broad incised lobes, or entire in the upper 

 leaves. Flowers blue, large, in long spikes, pubescent. Spur very short, obtuse, 

 bifid. 



Borders of fields and waste places in the Var. May, June. Very local. 

 Hyeres, north of Mont Condon near Toulon, La Farlede, Bormes, etc. 



ACONITUM L. 



A. Lycoctonum L. Stem attaining 3 ft., pubescent, branched. Leaves 

 deeply palmately cut, with 5-7 broadly wedge-shaped segments. Flowers pale 

 yellow, in dense oval, elongated spikes. Sepals pubescent, soon falling. Hood 

 much higher than broad. Follicles 3 ; seeds striated on all sides. 



Mountain and sub-Alpine woods in the Maritime Alps and on Monte Ceppo. 

 June, July. 



L. Napellus L. Monkshood. Tubers turnip-like, covered with fibres. Stem 

 erect, 2-5 ft. high, densely leafy above. Leaves shiny, dark green, palmate, 5-7 

 cleft. Flowers dark violet, in a dense long spike. Follicles glabrous, parallel 

 (not spreading) when ripe. 



Woods in the sub- Alpine and mountain regions of the Maritime Alps. July. 

 These 2 species scarcely come within our district. 



