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AQuiLEeGiA Sxinnert. Mr. SKINNER'’S 
CoLUMBINE. 
KEK EKER EEK EEE EER EEE 
Class and Order. 
PoLyANpDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—RanuncuLacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-sepalus, deciduus, colorato-petaloideus ; petala 
5 superne hiantia bilabiata, labio exteriore magno plano, 
interiore minimo, deorsum producta in calcaria totidem cava 
apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5. Capsule 
totidem erecte oo-sperme stylis acuminate, D C. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Aguitecia Mexicana ; glabra, calcaribus patenti-rectis lon- 
gissimis limbo quintuplo longioribus, sepalis lanceola- 
tis petalorum limbo duplo longioribus, staminibus lon- 
gissime exsertis stylos 3—5 excedentibus. 
This, the finest of the Genus AquiLeciA yet known to us, 
(if we except, perhaps, the A. cerulea of Torrey,—A. ma- 
crantha, Hoox. et Arn., Bot. of Beech. Voy. t. 82.,)—was 
sent to Woburn Abbey, by G. U. Skinner, Esq., from 
Guatemala ; a country much to the South of any which had 
been previously supposed to produce a species of Colum- 
bine. North America reckons four species, A. Canadensis, 
L.,—A. formosa, Fiscuer,—A. cerulea, Torr.,—and A. 
brevistyla, Hooker. All these are northern plants, or at 
least not known in the extreme South of the United States, 
nor further South on the Pacific side than Monterey in 
California. . 
A. Skinneri proves to be perfectly hardy, having survived 
the severe winter of 1840-41 in the open ground at — 
an 
