fully white, variously tinged above with light blue. In my opinion 
it is not only the Queen of Columbines, but the most beautiful of 
all herbaceous plants, and I never felt so much pleasure in finding 
a plant before.” We must therefore endeavour to increase it, 
so as to fill an entire bed with it, and we think it is eminently 
suited to such an object. In the name I have adopted for this 
plant I trust that I shall receive the sanction of the American 
botanists. A. c@rulea has assuredly the right of priority, and 
Mr. James does speak of the flowers as “blue: but Nuttall de- 
scribes them as “ochroleucous;’ and, among our numerous 
specimens living and dried, white, with an ochroleucous or 
purplish green, rarely with a blue tinge (and never wholly blue 
or approaching to it) are the prevailing colours ;— the name 
therefore of cerulea tends to mislead, while that of /eptoceras 
is unexceptionabie. 
Duscr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, 1-14 foot high. 
Leaves chiefly radical, and those petiolate ; petioles long, twice 
ternate, glaucous, especially beneath ; the /eaflets broadly cuneate, 
divided generally with three obtuse lobes, which are either simple 
or slightly divided again. Other smaller leaves spring from the 
branchings of the stem, ternate, nearly sessile, especially the 
uppermost ones. Mowers large, paniculate, often three inches 
across, their colour white, or cream-white, with a tinge of blue, 
more generally of purplish-green. Calyx of five spreading, 
rhomboid-lanceolate seya/s, much longer than the petals. These 
latter are cuneate, cucullate below, each ending in a very long, 
nearly straight, slender, subulate spur, capitate at the extremity 
and twice as long as the limb. Stamens numerous, shorter 
than the petals. Anthers yellow. Styles shorter than the 
stamens. 
