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DELPHINIUM

Volume 2 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

or LARK'S-SPUR, in botany, a genus of the polyandria trigynia class. It has no calyx; the corolla consists of five petals; and the nectarium is bifid, and horned behind. There are seven species, only one of which, viz. the consolida, or wild lark's-spur, is a native of Britain.