is called Flos Regius: of divers, Consolida regalis; 
who make it one of the Consounds or Comfreys. 
It is also thought to be the Delphinium which 
Dioscorides describes in his third book; wherewith 
it may agree. It is reported by Gerardus of 
Veltwijcke, who I’emained Lieger with the great 
Turk from the Emperor Charles the fifth, that the 
said Gerard saw, at Constantinople, a copy which 
had in the chapter of Delphinium, not leaves but 
flowers, like Dolphines ; for the flowers, and espe- 
cially before they be perfected, have a certain shew 
and likeness to those Dolphines, which old pictures 
and arms of certain ancient families have expressed 
with a crooked and bending figure or shape ; by 
which sign also the heavenly Dolphin is set forth. 
And it skilleth not, though the chapter of Delphini- 
um be thought to be falsified and counterfeited; for 
although it be some other man’s, and not of Dios- 
corides, it is, notwithstanding, some one of the old 
writers,’ out of whom it is taken, and foisted into 
Dioscorides' books : of some it is called Bucinus, 
or Bucinum : in English, Lark's spur. Lark’s heel. 
Lark’s toes, and Lark’s claw : in high Dutch, Ridder 
spooren; that is, Equitis calcar, Knight’s spur: in 
Italian, Sperone: in French, Pied d' alouette.” 
With the specimen from which our di'awing was 
made, we were favoured by Mr. Cameron, who 
raised it in the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s 
garden, from Indian seeds. It is new to British 
collections, and undescribed in any of our botanical 
works. It is not very hardy, but ripens abundance 
of seeds, from which it can be proj)agated easily 
and abundantly. 
