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AQUILEGIA atro -purpurea. 
Purp^-Jhwered Coktmbirie. 
^'^Slyavdbja pbntagyhia. 
ruNCULACiEJE. 7W6. IV. HeUe4<^re8e. 
AQ, vTSSQlA L. — Calyx 5-sepalus deciduus cmorato-petaloideus. P#- 
te/a 5, supeni^ hiantia bilabiata, labio exteriore magno piano, iDteriore 
minimo, deorsum prodocta in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala 
exserta. Stamina plurima in phalanges 5-10 disposita, interiora abortiva, 
antheris nullis, Jilamentis dilatatis membranaceis oblongis. Ovaria 5. 
CapsulcB totidem erectse, polyspermse stylis acuminatiE. Herbeo perennes 
erectce ; radices Jibrosce ; folia radkalia (lut bifcriorn IoikjI pi tiobda. pctiolo 
trifido hiternatim sccto, segnientis trijidis dentutis scepiiis ohluscs ; supenora 
in lobos lincarcs partita aut secta ; flores termin(des ccerulei, ulbi, rosei aiff 
purpurei, rarissime sordide flavescentes. Decand. rcgn. vig. syst. 1.333. 
A. atro-purpurea ; calcaribus rectis limbo eequalibus, stylis staminibusque 
sepala subsequantibus, sepalii longitudiflie petalorum. Die. I. e. 1.339. 
prodr. 1. 51. 
A. viridifloia / nectariis coerulescentibos. Willd. sp. pi. 2.1247. 
A. atro-purpurea ; nectariis rectis, apice incrassato subinflexis, petalis loogt- 
tudine nectarii, stylis staminibusque coroUam eequantibos. Willd. enim. 
1.577, Link. enum. 2.%5. 
/3. Dahurica ; stylis exsertis. 
A. Daourica. Dec. sys^^H&^9^ Delessert's Icones Selects, 1, t. 49. 
A. atro-purpurea; fi, Dahurica, e< y, Fischeriana. Decand. prodr, 1. 51. 
Herba perennis, \-\\pedalis. FoM^ erecta, longi petiolata, scapo pernio 
breviora, petiolo bis trifido, fe^lis eomtiii trilobis 2-3-dentcUi8, supri 
glahriSf stdttHs pilosiuscuMs. Scapus erectus, /bliosus, simplex v. 2-3-par- 
titus. Flores campatu^, nutantes, fusco-purpurei. Sepala oMonga, 
obtusa, subvirescentia, petalorum truncatonHiii kugitudine. Csdcaiis ricte, 
apice incrassata subinflexa, petaUs pa^lh Ireman. Styli exserti. 
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A pretty, little, neat, hardy herbaceous plant, native of 
Siberia. It flowers in tie open border, in any common 
light soil, from April till June. Our drawing was made in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, where 
it had been raised from, Siberian deeds commttnicated by 
Dr. Fischer. / 
