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Tas. 4407, 
AQUILEGIA teproceras. 
Slender-spurred Columbine. 
Nat. Ord. RaNUNCULACE®.—POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-sepalus deciduus colorato-petaloideus ; petala 5 superne 
hiantia bilabiata, Zabio superiore magno plano, i/eriore minimo, deorsum pro- 
ducta in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5. 
Capsule totidem erectz oo-sperme stylis acuminate. De Cand. 
AQUILEGIA leptoceras; foliis radicalibus biternatis, subtus praecipue glaucis, 
foliolis late cuneatis lobatis, calcaribus longissimis rectiusculis gracilibus 
limbo cuneato subduplo longioribus, sepalis rhombeo-lanceolatis. 
_ Aaurieeta cerulea. James in Long’s Exped. to the Rocky Mount. v. 2. p. 204 et 
bp. 345. (Engl. Ed.) Torr. in Rocky Mount. Pl. p.164. Torr. et Gr. Fi. 
N. Am, 0.1. p. 30. 
Aaurizera leptoceras. Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philadelph. v.7. p. 8. 
AQUILEGIA macrantha. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 317. p. 72. 
_ Raised in the Royal Gardens from seeds, collected by Mr. Burke 
in the Snake country of the Rocky Mountains ; abundant about 
Fort Hall. James, its original discoverer, detected it “ between 
the head waters of the branch of the Platte called Defile Creek and 
those of the northern tributaries of the Arkansas : and Mr. Tolmie 
received specimens from a hunter, collected between Henry s 
and Fish Rivers. All these localities are in elevated regions of 
' the Rocky Mountains, in about lat. 40°; and the species seems 
to be very local. Remarkable as it is for the large size of the 
flowers and the uncommon length of the spurs, we fear that as seen 
in our figure, upon a white ground, and cultivated as a solitary 
Specimen, it possesses few attractions. Yet growing 1n masses, as 
1t does on its native hills, it must present a very striking appear- 
ance; for James,in Long’s Travels, asserts that “it forms a splendid 
acquisition to the Flora of the United States ;” and Mr. Burke 
In his letter from Fort Hall, dated Sept. 3rd, 1845, says, “I 
found near Medicine River a most beautiful Columbine, which 
have never seen elsewhere, growing at the foot of a hill in rich 
loamy soil in great abundance: the flowers very large, beauti- 
NOVEMBER lst, 1848. 
