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AQUILEGIA leptoceras. 
Slender-horned Columbine. 
POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE. 
AQUILEGIA.—L. 
A. leptoceras ; calcaribus rectis lamina truncata duplo longioribus, staminibus 
lamina petalorum paulo longioribus, stylis stamina paulo superantibus, 
sepalis ellipticis stamina stylosque excedentibus, cyamiis (5) glaberrimis 
apice divergentibus, seminibus nitidulis.—Fisch. $ Meyer in Linnea, 12. 
litteraturbl. 153. o 
Accedit foliis et calcaribus ad Aq. canadensem, sed sepalis dilatatis sta- 
mina stylosque excedentibus, ovariis glaberrimis aliisque notis satis diversa ; 
ab A. sibirica haud «gre dignoscitur calcaribus rectis, interdum obliquis, sed 
nunquam hamatis, cyamiis apice divergentibus, foliis in lacinias angustiores 
dissectis, etc. ; ab A. parviflora, nostra species nectariorum lamina plana (in 
A. parviflora cucullata) preter alias notas, diversissima. Flores magnitudine 
et forma A. vulgari (si calcaria elongata recta pretermittis) similes, pulchre 
ecrulei, petalorum lamina apice flavescens.—F. & M. l. c. 
This very pretty plant has been raised in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, from seed received from Dr. 
Fischer in 1846 ; and is thus described in the Society's 
Journal, Vol. 2, p. 314 :— 
“ A dwarf herbaceous plant, not growing more than 
9 inches high, with slender purplish green stems thinly coated 
with scattered hairs. The leaflets of the triternate leaves are 
wedge-shaped, rounded, with about 3 lobes at the end. Each 
stem bears one or two flowers, on slender pedicels rather more 
than 2 inches long. The flowers are a pale bright violet, 
with the tips of the sepals greenish, and of the short petals 
a clear bright straw-colour. 
« It is a native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical, accord- 
ing to Messrs. Fischer and Meyer, who distinguish it from 
Aquilegia canadensis by its dilated sepals longer than the 
