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1. RANTJlfCULACEJE. 
— St. 12-18 in. high stiff leafy finely and closely pubescent ; 
branches more than once forked remote few slender lax and 
widely straggling ending in short lax few-flowered racemes 3 
or 4 in. long. L. sessile deeply multifid with narrow linear acute 
segm. FI. rather distant about 3-5 in each rac. large deep 
violet-blue ; pedic. often scarcely longer than and never more 
than twice the length of the bracts. Follicles always (in Mad.) 
pubescent 4-6 or 8 lines long. DC. and Koch 1. c. describe the 
caps, as smooth ; and Brotero says the germen is so sometimes. 
I have never seen them, either in Herb, or in the living pi., 
otherwise than pubescent. They are unfortunately wanting in 
the Linn. type. 
D. Ajacis L. ! with straight stiff erect virgate st. either simple 
or with few short simple stiff erect side-branches, with long 
closely and many-fld. rac. and always pubescent larger follicles, 
8-10 or nearly 12 lines long, which is the origin of the common 
garden double-fld. Docket Larkspur of so many varieties of 
colour, pink, lilac, purple, lavender, &c. and white, and of which 
D. Consolida FI. Gr. t. 504, referred by DC. to his I), pubescens, 
seems to represent, as remarked already by Fischer and Meyer 
(Animadv. Bot.), a more than usually branched luxuriant state of 
the single-fld. wild pi., is not found in Mad. except in gardens. 
** Delphinellum DC. Ov. 3; 2 lower pet. distinct or free 
and beardless ; cor. -spur internal 1-2-petalous. 
2. I). PEREGRINUM L. 
Smooth or nearly so ; st. erect branched leafy ; branches 
rather numerous slender twiggy straight and stiff erect or erecto- 
patent; 1. 3-partite many-cleft, segm. of the upper 1. and br. 
long linear acute, of the lower broader and less divided ; fl. in 
short somewhat crowded rac., the 2 lower pet. stalked, their 
limb orbicular or squarish, cordate at the base; cal. -spur pubes- 
cent slender ascending or erect; cor.-spur 2-petalous. — Linn. ! 
Herb. ; Svst. Nat. (Ed. 12) ii. 371. D. peregrinum L. y. elon- 
qatum Boiss. ! in HH. ; Walp. Repert. 1. 51. I), cardiopetcilum 
DC. Svst. 1. 347; Prodr. 1. 62.— Herb. aim. Mad. reg. 2; r. 
Cornfields a little below the Allegria Chapel above S. Roque 
near Funchal. June-Aug. — Size of the preceding but more 
slender branched and leafy with more numerous upright virgate 
branches and smaller more crowded paler b. fl., whitish and 
elegantly striped outside in the bud. Rachis of rac., pedic., 
br., sep., spur and ovary minutely downy; the rest smooth. 
Limb of the 2 lower pet. squarish-orbicular, as broad as long, 
notched at top, distinctly cordate at the base. Follicles 3, some- 
times 5, subpubescent or sparingly downy, 4 or 5 lines long. 
