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AQUILEGIA glauca. 
Glaucous Columbine. 
POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEA. 
AQUILEGIA. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 922. 
A. glauca; perennis, glauca, subpubescens, caule folioso plurifloro, foliolis 
trifidis cuneatis laciniis bitrilobis superioribus ovatis integerrimis, flori- 
bus amplis (flavescentibus odoratis) pilosiusculis, sepalis ovato-lanceo- 
latis acutis, petalorum calcaribus rectis lamina truncata brevioribus, sta- 
minibus petalis subeegualibus, ovariis glanduloso-villosis. 
Another of the fortunate results of the large and continual 
importations of seeds from the Himalaya mountains and Cash- 
mere by the East India Company. 
It is a fine hardy perennial growing well in any good 
garden soil, and requiring the same treatment as the common 
Columbine. Its stems are from one to two feet high. Its 
flowers are deliciously sweet and appear in May and June. 
It may be increased from seeds or by dividing the old plants 
when in a dormant state. 
Probably, as this does not appear among the Columbines 
enumerated by Drs. Royle and Wallich as found in the North 
of India, it may be considered by these excellent botanists as 
a variety of their A. pubiflora; but if we are to apply to the 
genus in India the distinctive characters employed for the 
species of Europe and Northern Asia, we must regard this 
as being distinct from it, in the larger and sweet-scented 
straw-coloured flowers, the nearly smooth stems, the very 
glaucous leaves, and the shaggy ovaries. It is much more 
difficult to distinguish from A. fragrans, another sweet-scented 
Indian species, which has however the spurs of the petals 
hooked inwards, and nothing of the glaucous colour so strik- 
ingly conspicuous in the foliage of A. glauca. 
