DELPHINIUM. 
ana order, Polyandria oe Nat. Ord. Ranunculacea, 
jull. Maltifitique, Linn. ur 
Gen. Ch. @al. n none, pene es with Juffieu, take the 
petals for fuch. Cor. Petals five, unequal, placed ina circle, 
of which the upper one is extended at the bafe into a long, 
freight, blon, tubular da the two la teral ones are broadeft, 
and the tw 6 lowermoft ap oe all. 
its tubular fpur eed in that of the poe petal 
Stam. Filaments numerous, 15—30, fmall, awl-fhaped, di- 
lated at the bafe, afcending towards the upper pctal. 
thers erect, roundith, two-lobed, {mall. 
TE 
colic ftraight, of one valve and one cell, Rare oe 
gitudinally along their inner edge. Seeds feveral, roundith, 
angular. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx none. Petals five; the upper one fpurred. 
Neétary cloven, with a potterior fpur. 
The lower leaves are digitate or palmate; the upper fome- 
times undivided. Flowers loofely {piked or panicled, ter- 
minal, various in colour, but never yellow. i : 
Nine f{pecies of Larkf{pur are enumerat the r4th 
edition of oe Syit. ve publithed by Muray, fourteen 
in Willden 
= a folitary. 
D. Confolida, § Brit. 577. Engl. Bot. t. 1830; 
- Capfale folitary. "Neary a one leaf. Stem fubdivided ;”” 
is one of the annual eg a panes open fie lds 
of Cable ie: &e. and known in eales the name 
of Branching Larkfpur. Its Latin deacen arofe from a 
miftaken opinion of its healing or confolidating virtues, 
The reverfe would be nearer the truth, its juices being, like 
thofe of pee kinds of Ranunculus, Anenne: and Clematis, fo 
acrid as or lefs to blifter the fkin. The flowers, na- 
turally of a fe lliant though deep blue, and forming with 
alum a blue pigment, are er rninel white, pink, or ele- 
gantly variegat ted with pin bay Filey ‘* Cap-- 
fule folitary. ary of one lea * Ste mple ;’” is t 
more common n Gardes Larklpor, fs frequently ¢ iia eand fo 
various in colour. Upon what fou n Lin and 
others have taken this be the byacint! poets 
does not a The late profeflor Martyn, and his fon, 
the learned are of Miller, contend, with great sdaeeaaees 
that Lilium Martagon was the plant intended, on 
of the letter-like’ marks on its petals, and profeffor "Hohe 
affents to this opinion. See Hyacinruus, Lizium, and 
timate branches fingle-flowered.”? 
very remarkable {pecies on account of its minute petals 
and large neétary, found by Tournefort ~ acne in the 
Levant, was referred by the latter to conit 
** Capfules Three to each £ ie 
OF this fection the moft remarkable are, D. grandiflorum, 
f 
ill. Ic. t. 250. f. x.; NeGiary two-leaved, with an un- 
m lofe to the raot 
after their firit flowering. D. Staphifagria, Stavefacre, 
Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 184, a native of the South of Europe, 
though a flower cr great beauty, is chiefly known for its 
fee eds as a vulgar remedy to expel lice. Itisa eae rather. 
difficult of culture, , 
De.rpuinium, in Ga rdening, one plants of the 
ype flowery, hardy, annual, and perennial kinds ; 
He which the ia mofily oer pa d are the upright larks 
t(D. djacis), the great flowered bee lark-fpur (D. 
Calle), eect he tall bee larkefpur (D. etaium ) + OF 
which the firft is annual, aud has the flaiks eizuteen Inches 
and more in height, feldom b-anched ; the leaves are finely 
divided, commonly by threes, on broad petioles ; the feg- 
ments are quite entire, channelled above; the 
owers 3 a fingle A dow 
rocket lark-fpur, and dwarf or rocket 4 {pur 
The -fecond fort has a perennial root, which oe out two 
or three branching flalks every {pring, rifing about a foot 
and a half high; the leaves are {mooth and of a light green 
a above, and hoary beneath, compoted of many narrow 
ur 
plant is a native of sit eria 
e laft fort rifes to ae height of from five to fix feet 5 
the root is perennial; the leaves flightly villofe, becoming 
fmooth by age, alive lobed lobes acute, often 
It isa native of Seiad ee. eee from rice 
to September 
Method of Culture.—Thefe plants, in all the forts and 
varieties, are propagated by fowing the feeds in the early 
{pring, as in February, March, and the following month, ne 
in the autumn, immediately after the feeds become ripe, 
the c laces where the plants are . 
erfectly by tran{planting, 
n pat eches eight a place, covering the feed into 
ue e depth 2 Bae half an inch, the mould being previoully 
rendered fine 
Where the annual fort and vatieties are cultivated for a 
large fhow, the feed may be fown thinly in drills on beds 
four feet broad, at a foot diftance, covering it into the 
above depth. They are aca fown in other forms, for 
the aoe of appearanc 
utumn fowings oe thefe feeds fhould be marked, io 
ca. {mall fticks in the places, to Lita their being 
difturbed by the {pring digging of the g 
e only culture the plants in pane at ae after they 
appear, is that of thinning them in a proper manner, accord~ 
reeds, £4 
ing tocircumftances, and keeping them free from w And 
in the perennial forts, removing the ftems in the autumn 
efe plants : much ornament and variety in the 
different compartments of pleafu aa and they fuc- 
ceed in ae 2 ils - ination, being of hardy growth 
Mi ee a maritime town of 
the ifle ‘of Chios uated rie d, and towards the middle 
of the iflan as taken by Cellicratides, commander of 
the {acedemonins towards the fecond year of the 93d 
olympiad, 407 yea 
DELPHINUS, the Delphi . in Afronomy, a oS 
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