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(T. and G.), vimineum (D. Don.), urceolatum (Jacg.), etc., etc. 

 Delphinia of authors quoted. 



Delphinium (Dioscorides) Linn. Sp. PI. p. 536, (1753).' 



Phledinium Spach. 1. c. p. 351. 



Delphinium peregrinum Linn. 1. c. p. 531.^ 



Phledinium peregrinum (Linn.) Spach. 1. c. r 



Type of the genus Delphinum stricto (scnsu.) 



CoNSOLiDA (Brunfels) S. F. Gray,^ 1. c. 



Delphinium Spach. 1. c. stricto sensu, not of Linn.,f or only 

 in part. 



Consolida regalis (Brunfels) S. F. Gray, 1. c. 



Delphinium Consolida Linn., Sp. PI. p. 530, (1753). Type 

 of the genus Consolida. 



Consolida Ajacis (Linn.). 



Delphinium Ajacis Linn. 1. c. p. 531. 



Consolida Ajacei Schur., in Verh. Siebenb. Ver. Naturw. 

 IV., p. 47, (1853). 



AnemonanThaea S. F. Gray. 

 The group of plants now usually included in the genus 

 Anemone, but not having hairy achenes, typified by Anemone 

 nemorosa Linn., were segregated by S. F. Gray as the genus 



1 The name Phtirium Raf. is an absolute synonym of Delphinium, 

 Latin name for the Dolphin. 



2 The plant was first named by Dioscorides, a Greek, who lived in 

 Italy in the first century. D. Consolida and D. Ajacis the plants made typical 

 of Delphinium by Dr. Britton grow in Europe, Orient, and northern Asia. 

 Linnaeus never designated types and it is worse than useless to accept the 

 first named species of his genera as type of the genus without consulting 

 the other authors from whom Linnaeus took the names he used. Types 

 of his genera can only be determined in many cases by a careful study of 

 the older authors. See Britton, N. L., 111. Fl. N. Am. II. p. 93, (1913). 

 The native Delphinum of Italy is D. peregrinum- and is more probably 

 the plant of Dioscorides, though D. Consolida may have been known to him 

 as the second species mentioned in his work. See Daubeny C, Lectures on 

 Roman Husbandry, (Oxford), p. 236, (1857) also P'ee, A. L. A. Flore de 

 Theocrite, p. 102, (1832), also his Flore de Vergile, p. 67, (1822). Also 

 Fraas, Flora Classica, Sibthorp in his Flora Graeca, I. p. 370-371 says 

 that the Delphiftium of Dioscorides is Delphinium peregrinum, lann. and 

 that the second species mentioned in his Materia Medica or the J£/^£V{«y 

 £Tz/jir/ Diosc is Delphinium Consolida Linn. 



3 S. F. Gray 1. c. 



