POLYANDRIA— PENTAGVNIA, Delphinium. 2.9 



1. P. corallina. Entire-leaved Piony. 



Leaves twice ternate ; leaflets ovate, undivided, smooth. 

 Follicles downy, recurved. 



P.corallina. ReAz.Ohs.fasc.Z.^A. fVilld. Sp. PI. v. 2. ]22\. Engl. 



Bot.v.22.t.\5\3. Comp.ed.4.95. Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. v.3.3\5. 



DeCand. Syst. v. 1 . 388. 

 P. officinalis /3. Linn. Sp. PL 747 . Mill. Illustr.t.47. 

 P. mas. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 26.5./. Camer. Epit. 6r>7.f. Dod. 



Pempt. 194./. Ger. Em. 980 / Lob. Ic. 684./. 685./. 

 Paeonia. Palmberg Sert.286.f. 



On islands in the river Severn. 



Abundantly in the rocky clefts of the Steep Holmes, in the Severn. 

 Mr. F. B Upright. On a rabbit-warren about 2 miles from Graves- 

 end, according to Gerarde ; but no other person has found it 

 there. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fleshy, knobbed. Herb smooth, about 2 feet high. Stems 

 simple, round, leafy, polished, reddish. Leaves twice ternate ; 

 leaflets elliptical, undivided, of a dark shining green. The up- 

 permost leaf is sometimes ternate only, or simple ; rarely pin- 

 nate, as in Engl. Bot. and Miller. Fl. about 4 inches broad, 

 crimson, with yellow anthers. Germens 2, 3, or 4, white with 

 purple stigmas. Seed-vessels internally reddish and polished. 

 Seeds black and shining; the interspersed abortive ones angular, 

 scarlet. 



A very handsome plant, far less common in gardens than P. offi' 

 cinalis, the foemina of old authors, and scarcely ever seen dou- 

 ble, as the latter usually is. 



271. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Linn. Gen. 274. Juss. 234. Fl. Br. 5/7. Tourn. t.24l. Lam. 

 t.482. Gcertn i. 65. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 270. 



Cal. none. Pet. 5, inferior, unequal, ranged in a circle, 

 spreading; the upper one extended behind into a long, 

 tubular, straight, bluntish spur; the rest ovate-oblong, 

 with claws, various in various species. Nectary divided, 

 of 1 or 2 sessile leaves, placed in front within the row of 

 petals, on the upper side, extended behind in the form 

 of a tube, contained in the spur of the uppermost petal. 

 Filam. numerous, awl-shaped, dilated at the base, much 

 shorter than the corolla, directed upwards. Anth. round- 

 ish, small, erect. Germ, superior, 3 or 1, or 5, ovate, 

 each terminating in a style shorter than the stamens. 



