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AQUILEGIA jucunda. 
Joyous Colombine. 
POLYANDRIA TRI-PENTA-GYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEX. (Cnowroors, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 425.) 
AQUILEGIA.— L. 
A. jucunda ; calcaribus inde a basi preecrassá valdé curvatis apice cephaloideis 
subhamatisque, labello arrecto supra rotundato multo brevioribus, pistillo 
superante stamina incipiente anthesi recto-parallela, fructu ovoideo basi 
umbilicato.— Fisch. Meyer & Avé-Lallem. index sextus seminum. 
A. glandulosa, Sweet’s Flower Garden, ser. 2. t. 55. 
A. alpina, Delessert ic. select. 1. t. 48. 
Dr. Fischer says that this plant stands intermediate as it 
were between the true A. glandulosa and A. alpina. “ It 
differs from A. glandulosa not only in the points included in 
the specific character, but in the sepals being ovate, tapering 
to the point, and deep blue ; in the petals being roundish ovate 
(not truncate as in A. alpina, nor acute as in A. glandulosa) 
whitish, touching each other by their whole length ; in the 
anthers being narrowly oval, the carpels fewer (6-10), and 
the seeds thicker, with 5 imperfect longitudinal keels. 
Among the slighter marks by which it differs from A. alpına 
are the long peduncles, the spurs which are exactly those of 
A. glandulosa, the white petals, the yellow anthers, and more 
numerous carpels. It is found on the mountains of Siberia.” 
In gardens it is a fine hardy perennial, growing about a 
foot high, when planted in a compost composed of sandy loam 
and leaf-mould. It is well suited for rock-work, where it can 
be kept free from damp when in a state of repose, but freely 
supplied with moisture during the growing season, otherwise 
the plants dwindle away and never flower. 
It is easily inereased by seeds, or by dividing the old 
plants when in a dormant state, and flowers from June to 
August. 
