62 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I-DELPHINIUM AJACIS. Reich. 
Puate XLVII. (A.)* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. TV. Ran. Tab. LXVIT. Fig. 4670. 
Baker, in Proceedings of the Thirsk Nat. Hist. Soc., Phytologist, New Series, 1858, 
p. 376. 
Gay, in Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 46. Boreaw, Fl. du Cent. de la Fr. ed. iii. 
Vol. II. p. 25. 
D. Consolida, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 12. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 13. 
Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 66. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i, No. 1839; Eng. Fl. 
Vol. IIT. p. 30. (Non Linn.) 
D. Consolida 3, pubescens, Lowe, Fl. of Madeira, p. 7. 
Racemes generally elongated, arranged in a loose panicle. 
Carpels pubescent. Follicle downy, oblong, cylindrical, obliquely 
truncate at the apex, the persistent style about one-sixth the length 
of the carpel. Seeds with continuous waved ridges. Lower bracts 
cut into linear divisions. 
Cornfields. Rare. It has been long established as a weed 
in Cambridgeshire, ‘ but is now disappearing through improved 
farming” (Bab.). It occurs as a straggler in various other 
counties, even as far north as Edinburgh, but does not appear to 
be permanently naturalized except in Cambridgeshire. 
England, [Scotland]. Annual. Summer. 
Stem solitary, slightly branched, branches ascending. Leaves 
multifid, the lower ones stalked, the upper sessile. Segments short, 
linear. Racemes 4- to 16-flowered, terminating the stem and 
branches. Lowest bracts resembling the leaves, but smaller, and with 
fewer segments ; uppermost bracts entire. Pedicels ascending-patent, 
about as long as the lowest and much longer than the upper bracts, 
elongating a little after flowering, with two small entire bractioles 
near the middle of each. Flowers about 1 inch in diameter, the 
spur 2 inch long, curved upwards. Sepals rhomboid - spatulate, 
with slender claws, bright French blue, more rarely white or pink, 
paler on the outside. Petals combined into a monopetalous corolla, 
open on the lower side, pale purplish blue, with a few dark lines ; 
the two upper lobes darker blue, longer and much narrower than 
the lateral ones. Follicle about $ inch long, cylindrical, oblong, a 
little wider about one-third from the base, olive, downy. Seeds 
nearly black, surrounded by numerous, closely-placed, thin, mem- 
* The Plate (D. Consolida), E. B. 1839, is retained as a good figure of D. Ajacis. The, 
sapsule and seed are added from a Cambridgeshire specimen. 
