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has seen great patches of a variety with beautiful salmon-colored flowers entirely 
replacing the red formosa and the yellow flavescens. Since in the centers of their 
ranges formosa and flavescens are amply distinct, the author is very loath to treat one 
plant as a subspecies of the other. It would seem best to retain each as a species, 
never forgetting, however, that in certain regions the two actually merge. 
AQUILEGIA FLAVESCENS forma MINOR Tidestrom, Amer. Mid. Nat. 1: 171. 1910. 
‘Subalpine, smaller and more hairy. Wasatch Plateau.’’ (Tidestrom.) 
6. Aquilegia formosa Fisch.; DC. Prodr. 1: 50. 1824. 
Aquilegia canadensis Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 24 (in part). 1829. 
Aquilegia arctica Loud. Hort. Brit. 610. 1830. 
Aquilegia canadensis L. err. det. Bong. Mém. Acad, St. Pétersb. VI. Math. Phys. 
Nat. 2: 124. 1832. 
Aquilegia canadensis formosa 8. Wats. in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 10. 1871. 
Aquilegia columbiana Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 145. 1902. 
Stems 35 to 90 cm. high, usually glabrous below, more or less pubescent and viscid 
in the inflorescence; lower leaves biternate, the upper onessimple or 3-cleft, the petio- 
lules and lower surfaces of the typically large leaflets frequently pubescent; flowers 
3.5 to 4 cm. long, 5 to 5.5 cm. across, nodding; sepals red, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
widely spreading or reflexed, 21 to 26 mm. long; lamine yellow, rounded or truncate 
at apex, 2 to 5 mm. long; spurs red, stout, straight, slightly shorter than sepals; style@@ 
10 to 13 mm. long; ovaries pubescent; follicles mostly 5, 2 to 2.5 cm. long. 
Type LocaLiry: Kamchatka. 
Rance: Nevada and northern California, eastward to Utah and northward into 
Alaska; also in eastern Siberia. 
REFERENCES: 8. Wats. in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 10. 1871. Jones, Contr. 
West. Bot. 5: 259.1893. Robinson, Syn. Fl. 1: 44.1895. Davis, Minn. Bot. Stud. 2: 
340. 1899. Tidestrom, Amer. Mid. Nat. 1: 169.1910. Jepson, Fl. Calif. 518. 1914. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED (localities only). 
AuasKA: Taku Inlet; Wrangell; Juneau; Windham Bay; Disenchantment Bay; 
Sitka; Short Bay; headwaters of Chilkat River; Blue Lake, Sitka; Cleveland 
Peninsula; Howkan; Haenke Island, Disenchantment Bay. 
Canapa: Vancouver Island; Queen Charlottes Island, British Columbia; Selkirk 
and Rocky Mountains, Asulkan Valley, British Columbia; head of Smoky 
River, Alberta; Moresby Island, British Columbia. 
Wasuineton: Wilbur; Ellensburg, Okanogan County; Loomiston; near Wenatchee; 
Silverton; Mount Rainier Forest Reserve; Blue Mountains; Walla Walla County; 
Cascade Mountains; Yakima Region; Grand Coulee; Douglas County; Egbert 
Springs; Ellensburg; Olympic Mountains; Falcon Valley; Horseshoe Basin; 
near Egbert Spring; Douglas County; mountains near upper valley of the Nes- 
qually; Montesano, Chehalis County; Mount Stewart. 
Orecon: Portland; Jackson County; Elk Mountain, Wallowa County; Mount 
Hood; Steins Mountain; Crater Lake; Crook County; The Dalles; near Wimer, 
Jackson County; Quinn Meadows, Lane County; Buck Lake, Klamath County; 
Azaba Creek; Wallowa National Forest; Imnaha National Forest; near Wallowa. 
Ipauo: Boise; Silver City; Trinity Lake Region; Twilight Gulch; Martin, Blaine 
County; 4 miles south of Ketchum; Pettit Lake Inlet; between St. Joe and 
Clearwater River (form near flavescens); Big Butte Station. 
Cauirornia: Near Truckee; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo County; Tassajara 
Hot Springs, Monterey County; below Genesee, Plumas County; Goosenest, 
Siskiyou County; Pit River Ferry, Shasta County; Sopago, Eldorado County; 
Round Valley, Mendocino County; Mount Hood, Sonoma County; Stevens 
Creek Canyon, Santa Clara County; Modoc County; Mount Breckinridge, Kern 
County; Emigrant Gap. 
