comparing it. The differences we find relied on, are, that 
it comes later into flower, is a taller, more upright, and 
stiffer plant, with a more narrowly divided leaf. We must 
also observe, that M. Decandolle has described the limb of 
, the two upper petals in the flower of grandiflorum as pointed, 
in our plant it was manifestly blunt and rounded. We 
have preferred recording the plant as a strongly marked va- 
riety or possible species until the two can be determined by 
comparison in the living state or rather by experience. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley and Co., King’s Road, Fulham, in June 1818. Probably 
native of some of the Russian districts on the confines of 
China. Both (@) and («) vary with cream-coloured flowers. 
Some of the samples we saw of (@) were three feet high. 
We found a garden one from Moscow in Mr. Lambert’s 
Herbarium, where the plant is stated to be native of Kam- 
chatka. 
The species is remarkable among the perennial Lark- 
spurs in having the limb of the lower petals entire instead 
of cloven. 
Root inclining to black; stem upright; leaves petioled, 
triply divided, segments tripartite, lobes multifid (repeat- 
edly cleft), lobules linear narrow; peduncles 1-2 inches long. 
or more, ascending, stiff, one-flowered; a simple leafy bracte 
at their base, with two rather smaller ones placed above 
their middle. Leaflets of the calyx obovate, with a small 
hollow gibbous yellowish green externally villous point. 
Petals much shorter than the calyx, two upper ones with 
pale blue oblong round-ended limbs; two lower ones with a 
filiform straight unguis, limb deflexed, bearded at the base 
with yellow hairs. Germens 3-4, grey, close-pressedly 
furred. 
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