TaB. 8303. 
AQUILEGIA arprna. 
The Alps and Apennines. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAE. 
Aquiteaia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 8. 
Aquilegia alpina, Linn. Sp. Pl. 5383; All. Fl. Pedem. vol. ii. p. 64, t. 66; Koch, 
Syn. Deutsch. u. Schweiz. Fl. ed. 3, p. 50; Rouy et Fouc, Fl. Fr. vol. i. 
p. 128; Fiori e Paoletti, Fl. Anal. Ital. vol. i. p. 520; floribus magnis 
caeruleo-purpureis, staminibus petalis brevioribus distinguitur. 
Caules plures, erecti; 1-3-flori, puberuli. lia radicalia plerumque biternata ; 
petiolus et petioluli pilis longiusculis sparse puberuli; foliola ambitu 
rhomboideo-orbicularia, 2°5-4 cm. diametro, usque ad medium trifida, 
lobis inciso-crenatis, laciniis ultimis plerumque longioribus quam latis, 
subtus subglauca; folia caulina parva, trifoliolata vel simplicia, segmentis 
angustis. Flores 6-8 cm. diametro, caeruleo-violacei. Sepala patula, 
ovata, circiter 4 cm. longa, in unguem brevem angustata. Petala 
3°5-4 cm. longa; lamina truncata vel leviter emarginata, quam calcar 
uncatum manifeste brevior. Stamina circiter 40, 10-seriata, exteriora 
brevia antheris magnis, interiora longiora antheris minoribus; filamenta 
superne linearia, basin versus sensim dilatata; antherae oblongae, 
2-2°5 mm. longae, apiculatae, basi cordatae. Staminodia 10, anguste 
lanceolata, circiter 7 mm. longa, concava, hyalina. Carpella 5, dense 
pubescentia. olliculi 2-2-5 em. longi, pubescentes.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
Aquilegia alpina, the species here figured, is a native of 
the Alps of Dauphiné, Switzerland and Piedmont, and of 
the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines. The typical form 
of the species has almost straight spurs, but the degree of 
curvature of the spur seems to be subject to considerable 
variation, and the plant here depicted—which, in respect of 
its spur, approaches A. Sternbergii, Reichb., but differs from 
that species in its more robust habit and in having petals 
that exceed the stamens—is perhaps rather an extreme 
form than a distinct variety of A. alpina, For the material 
from which our plate has been prepared we are indebted to 
Mr. D. Hill, in whose rock-garden at Herga, Watford, the 
plant here depicted flowered freely in the early summer of 
1909. The plant was obtained by Mr. A. W. Hill on the 
Pleine Madeleine, near Chandelon, in Valais, where the 
species was found growing in quantity on a small level alp 
bordered with low trees and shrubs, at about 5,000 ft. above 
Marca, 1910. 
