24 RANUNCULACE^. [Aquilegia, 



striatus, glaber, supeme bifidus, biflorus. Bractea setacea, plerumque ad basin pedicellonim. Flores pani, 

 albidi. Calycis sepala 5, lineari-lanceolata, glabra, reflexa. Petala 5, longissima, aiigusta, filiformia, medium 

 versus dilatata, et ibi concava, cucullata. Stamina subdecem. Filamenta breviuscula, flexuosa. AnthereB 

 subglobosje, compressse, counectivo lato, loculis subreuiformibus oppositis. PistiUa Sr~lO, sessilia: Germen 

 oblongum, curvatum, stylo attenuatum : Stigma lineare, recurvum, papillosum. Capsules 6-10, louge 

 stipitat*, stipitibus subpubescentibus, oblongo-ovatse, styli basi brevi persistente acuminatse, membranaceie, 

 inflaUe, supra planie, binerves, nervo ceutrali duplici, uervis lateralibus non ad apicem attingentibus, inferne 

 gibbosse, nervo medio longitudinali ; supeme ad apicem rima longitudinali debiscentes, polysperma. Semina 

 receptaculis suturalibus, parte superiore capsube inserta, pendentes, 8-10, oblongse, fuscse. 



Hab. North-West coast of America. Menzies, Douglas. Observatory Inlet. Scaul€t\—ThtTe can be no 

 question of the correctness of Mr Salisbury in referring this curious plant to the genus Coptis. It has 

 altogether the same habit, and its fruit is equally elevated upon long stalks. The shape of the fruit in both 

 species is, indeed, not unlike that of Buxbaumia apliyUa. In the present individual, however, there are, 

 besides the superior sutural double nerve, and the lower dorsal one, two lateral nerves, not reaching to the 

 point, and they constitute the margin of the upper or plane surface. The flowers are very different in the 

 two; the calyx in C asplenioides being much smaller than in O. trifolia, and always reflexed. The petals 

 are exceedingly long and slender, very different in shape and texture from those of the other species. 



Tab. XI. Fig. 1, Plant in flower; Jig. 2, Plant in fruit:— naf. size; Jig. 3, Single flower; Jig. 4, Anther; 

 Jig. 5, Pistil ; Jigs. 6, 7, Capsules ; Jig, 8, Section of a capsule : — magnijied. 



11. AQUILEGIA. Linn. 



CaL 5-sepaIus5 deciduus, colorato-petaloideus. Petala 5, superne hiantia, bilabiata, labio 

 exteriore maguo piano, interiore minimo, deorsum producta in calcaria totidem cava, 

 apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5. Capsules totidem, erectse, polyspermee, stylis 

 acuminatse. DC, 



1. A. hrevistyla ; subpubescens, calcaribus incurvis limbo brevioribus, stylis brevibus 

 inclusis, staminibus corolla subbrevioribus. — A. vulgaris? Rich, in Franhh \st Journ, ed. 

 2. App. p. 21. 



Caulis foliaque fere omnino ut in A. vulgare. Flores duplo minores, cserulei, plerumque pubescentes. 

 Calycis sepala ovato-lanceolata, Petalorum Calcar apice solummodo incurvum, clavatum, limbo brevius. 

 Stamina corolla subbreviora, exteriora basi membrana aucta, interiora omnino membranacea, lineari-oblonga, 

 acuta, antheris destituta. Pistilla 5. Gennina lineari-cylindracea, pubescentia, in stylis apice leniter recurvis 

 sensim attenuata, staminibus brevioribus. Capmlce 5, unciam longse, stylo brevi vix duas lineas longo 

 terminatse. 



Hab. Western parts of Canada. Drummond. As far north as Bear Lake. Dr. Bicliardson. — ^Well dis- 

 tinguished from A. vulgaris, which is its nearest affinity, by the smaller flowers and much shorter styles ; 

 and from the A. ccerulea of Dr. Torrey, in his account of Plants from the Rocky Mountains, by its shorter 

 spurs to the corolla, which are curved at the apex. It was detected by Dr. Richardson during the first 

 Expedition, and doubtfully referred to A. vulgaris. 



2. A, canadensis; glabra, calcaribus rectis limbo longioribus, staminibus exsertis, stylis 

 setaceis longitudine staminum. — Linn, — Pursh^ FL Am. v, 2. jt?. 372, BigeL FL BosU ed. 2. 

 p. 219. De Cand Prodr. v, 1. p. 50. Curt Bot Mag, t, 246. Elliott, Carol v. 2. p, 20. 



fi, hyhrida; calcaribus apice incurvis, stylis brevioribus, floribus plerumque purpureis- 



Hab. Throughout Canada, from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains. Abundant at the mouth of the 

 Columbia, especially about Fort Vancouver. Douglas. Scouler. (S. Among the Rocky Mountains, between 

 lat. 52° and 55^. Drummond. — The stem, which is branched nnwardc anH iha l^mvAc ar« nnitP o-lnhrrt.ic 



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