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divided into numerous branches; and not more 
than fix inches high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are di- 
vided into many longifh and narrow. fegments: 
thofe on the lower parts of the ftalk are largeft, 
and ftand on footftalks ; thofe toward the upper 
part have no footttalks, and have but few divi- 
fions. 
The flowers ftand on the tops of the branches : 
they are large, and have a long heel: their co- 
lour is a dead blue, , 
There follows each flower only a fingle capfule 
for the feeds; but it is eafy to fee that it is com- 
pofed of three, united, one with another. This 
perfectly fhews how the fingle capfule happens in 
the other fpecies. 
Tt is common in the corn-fields in fome parts of 
England, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Confolida regalis arvenfis flore 
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1. Great fennel-leaved Larkfpur. 
Delphinium foliis feniculi. 
This is a large and very beautiful fpecies. The 
root is long, fimple, white, and. tufted with, 
fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are long, large, 
and divided into a multitude of flender, long feg- 
ments; fo that they have fome refemblance of 
‘thofe of fennel; and they are of a dark green. 
The ftalk is robuft, erect, and four feet high : 
it divides toward the top into many branches, and 
* on thefe ftand long fpikes of flowers. 
The leaves on the ftalk refemble thofe from the 
root in their divifion and colour: they ftand al- 
ternate, and are of a fine frefh green: 
ments are numerous, and very flender. 
The flowers are large, and of the form of thofe 
of the common larkfpur, but of a deeper and more 
beautiful blue. ‘This is their natural, but not 
their conftant colour; for they are fometimes 
‘red, and fometimes white. 
It is a native of Spain, and is brought into our 
gardens ; where it has all the advantages of cul- 
ture, and all the varieties attending it. 
C. Bauhine calls it Confolida regalis bortenfis 
Slore majore fimplici. 
2. Broad-leaved hairy Larkfpur. 
Delphinium hirfutum latifolium. 
The root is thick, and has few fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it ftand on long foot- 
ftalks ; and are large, hairy, and of a pale green: 
they are divided into many portions; but that not 
in the manner of the others, into narrow, grafly 
fegments ; but into about five broad parts, which 
are each fubdivided towaid the ends by deep 
cuts, and are notched round the edges. 
The ftalk is thick, robuft, erect, purplifh, a 
little hairy, and three feet high ; and is not much 
branched ; often none at all. 
The leaves‘are numerous on it, but ftand ir- 
regularly : they refemble thofe from the root, 
but are fmaller. 
The flowers are large, with a long fpyr, and 
their feg- | 
FOREIGN 
| parvo flore, 
ceruleo. 
ruleo. 
From this inconfiderable plant rife all the 
common varieties of the garden larkfpurs. There 
are diftinct fpecies to be named hereafter ; but 
the common, tall, and double larkfpurs rife only 
from this ftock by culture 
Others, Delpbinium fegetum flore ce 
Tt is agolutinant, and vulnerary. The con- 
ferve of the flowers is good in thofe purgings to 
which children are fubject, attended with fharp 
humours. 
The juice of the flowers is good againft difor- 
ders of the eyes; and the whole hérb made into 
an infufion, againft cholicks. 
Some have difputed thefe virtues of the lark 
pur ; but they tried the garden kind: that from 
the’ field is the right, 
SiP2Ec@sishese 
of a very beautiful blue: 
fpike. 
The feed-veffels ioe: three aft each flower ; 
and the feed is large, and dark coloured. 
It is a native of the northern parts of Europe, 
whence it is brought into our gardens ; where, 
from the leaves differing from the other lark/purs, 
and in fome degree refembling thofe of the aco- 
nites, it is commonly called tall. wolfs-bane: 
Authors have alfo led themfelyes into this error, 
by not fufficiently confidering that the flower is 
the part from which the reference to a genus is 
to be taken. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lp ne mp! UUs feet 
flore confolide regalis. 
a ftand in a long ; 
3- Smooth broad-leaved Larkfpur. 
Delphinium latifolium glabrum 
The root is long, white, fplit into Pranches, 
and hung round with fibres. 
‘The faves that rife from it are large, broad, 
and deeply divided’; but not at all like thofe of 
the common kind oF larkf{pur, or even like the 
laft kind: thofe are divided fomewhat in the fin- 
gered manner, their feveral broad fegments run- 
ning from the fame point which is the top of the 
footftalk ; but thefe have rather the divifion of 
the pinnated kind; for their feveral broad feg- 
ments, which are about equal in number, ftand 
in pairs, though they are not cut in to the centre, 
with an odd one atthe end. They are of a dufky 
green, and not atall hairy. 
The ftalk-is round, upright, and two feet and 
a half high. 
The fea ves.{tand irregularly, andare like thofe 
from the root, divided into three or four pairs of 
deep fegments, with an odd one at the end... < 
The flowers ftand in. {pikes at the tops of the 
branches, and are {mall and red. : 
The feeds follow in a fingle capfule ; 5 but, like 
the common lark{pur, a canfute made. up; of three. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, an | of. the 
warmer parts of Europe; and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Confolida regalis latifolia 
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