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plant, with large dark purple flowers, and a tuberous root. The stem is very little branched, and the leaves are 
deeply cut into five divisions, each of which is again divided into three long, narrow lobes. The species flowers 
in June and July ; it is quite hardy, and will grow readily in any common garden-soil. It is propagated by 
division of the root. 
5.— DELPHINIUM BARLOWII, Hort. MR. BARLOWS LARKSPUR. 
Synonymes. — D. elegans, 2 multiplex ; D. phoeniceum, Hort. 
Engkavinos. — Bot. Reg. t. 1944 ; Paxt. Mag. of Bot. and Gai-d. vol. v. p. 265 ; and oya fig, 1 in Plate 9. 
Description, &c. — This plant appears to be a hybrid, raised by a florist of the name of Barlow, near 
Manchester, between D, grandifiorum and D. elatum ; though some botanists suppose it to be a variety of 
D. elegans. Whatever may be the origin of this Larkspur, it is certainly the most beautiful of the genus ; as it 
is impossible to conceive a richer or more intense blue than is exhibited by its flowers, particularly when 
illuminated by the rays of the sun. The flowers are large, and very double ; and they are produced in the 
greatest abundance on an erect branched raceme, so as to form a splendid pyramid of flowers. The stem is very 
strong, and much branched ; and it is said to grow seven or eight feet high. Mr. Loudon and myself saw some 
plants above six feet high in the garden of the Misses Garnier, at Wickharo, Hants ; and frequently in other 
places about five feet high ; always flowering luxuriantly, and with large, very handsome leaves. It will grow 
in any soil and situation ; but it flourishes most in deep, rich mould, backed, but not shaded, by trees. If 
planted in a poor, dry soil, it is much smaller ; and if in an exposed situation, it is liable to be broken by high 
winds. It will continue to flower all the summer and autumn. 
6.— DELPHINIUM VIMINEUM, Z». Dm. THE TWIGGY LARKSPUR. 
ENORiTiNGS.— Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. 2d ser. t. 374 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 3593; and am fig. 4 in Plate 10. 
Specific Character. — Pubescent. Petioles simple ; leaves flat, three- 
parted ; segments wedge.shaped, and slightly three-lobed, each lobe 
tipped with a mucro. Raceme few-ilowered, slender, simple ; spur 
straight, equal in length to the sepals. 
Description, &c. — This species is not very ornamental, from the slendemess of the raceme and the fewness 
of the flowers ; though they are pretty in themselves, from the reddish hue of the petals, and their yellow fringe, 
which contrasts agreeably with the bright blue of the sepals. Tlie plant is tall and straggling ; the slender stems 
rising to the height of three or four feet, without a branch. The species is a native of North America, whence it 
was introduced in 1836 ; and it is quite hardy in British gardens. 
7.— DELPHINIUM ELEGANS, Dec. THE ELEGANT LARKSPUR. 
Specific Character. — Petioles hardly dilated at the base ; leaves 
smooth, five-parted, with 3 — 5-cleft lobes, and linear-lanceolate, acute 
lobules; racemes loose, few-fiowered ; petals shorter than the calyx; 
spur curved, shorter than the sepals. {G. Don.) 
Varieties. — D. e. 2 multiplex, Moris. Fl. Consp.—Xj. grandi- 
fiorum, fi.-pl. Horl. Flower double. 
Description, &c. — The flowers are small, and dark blue. The species is a native of North America, 
introduced in 1741. The variety, wliicli is commonly called the Double Larkspur, is confounded by Mr. George 
Don with D. Barlowii; but when grown together they appear quite distinct. D. Barlowii is a very tall, 
strong- growing plant, continuing in flower all the summer; while Delphinium elegans and its variety are both 
small plants, never growing above a foot or eighteen inches high, with very slender stems, and small delicate 
leaves, and flower only in June or July. 
