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all turned downwards on rigid curved petioles of % inch, the 



few small fascicled ones subsessile, widely spreading: flori- 



ferous branches few, remote, ascending, each with 1, or at 



most 2 glomerules, the largest 1 inch broad, % inch high: 



bracts and calyx only more densely tomentose, devoid of 



hairiness ; calyx-teeth slightly unequal, very short, merely 



deltoid but acute : corolla very short and small, tomentellous 

 externally. 



Specimens in U. S. Herb, from higher slopes and summit 

 of Stone Mountain, Georgia, collected by John K. Small, 27 

 July, 1893. It is remarkable that a type so distinct in aspect 

 and in important characters should have been allowed to pass 



for A^. albescens:. 



Two Californian Columbines* 



Aquilegia HYPOI.ASIA. Robust and tall, perhaps a yard 

 high, the stout and somewhat fistulous stems with ascending 

 flowering branches sparsely and somewhat viscidly hirtellous, 

 the long peduncles more densely so : basal leaves 8 to 10 inches 

 high and with large ample leaflets, the petiole and petiolules 

 villous rather than hirtellous; leaflets lj4 to 2 inches long 

 and broad, 3-cleft to the middle, the sinuses narrow, the seg- 

 ments again 3-lobed and the lobes obtuse, upper face of a livid 

 green and wholly glabrous, the low^er almost as wholly soft- 

 villous with long spreading very fine hairs, but these most sig- 

 nally developed along the veins and veinlets : flowers scarlet, 

 small for so large a plant, their length little more than an 

 inch, but spread of sepals much more than an inch, these 

 individually narrowly rhombic-ovate, very acute, their claw 

 short and wide ; petals subtruncate, very short and thick : fol- 

 licles pubescent, acute at tip and there moderately divergent. 



Indigenous to extreme southern California, in the moun- 



