DELPHINIUM CONSOLIDA. 
BRANCHING LARKSPUR. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. TRIGYNI A . 
Natural Order. 
RANDNCDLACRAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 1 
Duration. 
England. 
2| feet. 
j June, Aug. 1 
| Annual. 
Native of 
Sandy Fids. 
No. 432. 
The name, Delphinium, is deduced from the old 
Greek authors, who employed their name in allu- 
sion to the similarity of shape in the dolphin and 
the flower to which they applied the appellation. 
Consolida is a term continued as a specific name of 
this plant, from its having been used as a generic 
one by some of the early European herbalists. The 
name is from the Latin consol idare, and intended 
to mark the virtue of the plant in soldering, or 
closing up a wound. 
In our last page, we mentioned the production of 
a blue colour, from the petals of Centaurea cyanus. 
The flowers of this Delphinium also yield a fine 
blue tint; which, with a little alum, may be used 
with good effect for water-colour drawings. 
This annual Larkspur, or Larksheels, as Gerard 
has it, should be seen in every garden. Its flowers 
are very ornamental ; and as there is a pink variety 
as well as blue, they may be mingled together with 
good effect, especially on entire beds. Its foliage 
being of so light and airy a character, renders the 
branching of the plant not objectionable, even in 
the mingled parterre. 
