Tap. 8354. 
AQUILEGIA FLABELLATA, var. NIVEA. 
Japan and Sakhalin. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HeELLEBOREAE. 
Aquitxaia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 8. 
Aquilegia flabellata, Seb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fum. Nat. i., 1848, p. 75, var. 
nivea, /ort.; floribus albis tantum a typo recedit. 
Herba, rhizomate ascendente lignoso simplice vel pauciramoso superne basibus 
persistentibus foliorum obtecto. Caules floriferi solitarii, erecti, 15-25 em. 
longi, sparse pilosi, saepius triflori, Folia radicalia plura, longipetiolata, 
basi vaginantia, ternatim decomposita; foliola cireumscriptione orbiculari- 
flabellata, trisecta, 2-5 cm. diametro, subtus glaucescentia; segmenta 
trilobata, lobis snbrhomboideis iternm lobatis lobulis rotundatis. Holia 
caulina 2-3, petio'o usque ad apicem vaginante; segmenta circiter ad 
medium lobata. Flores cernui, albi; flos terminalis primum evolutus 
pedunculo circiter 5 em. longo ebracteato; flores laterales pedunculati, 
pedunculis apice bracteatis, pedicellis 1-2 em. longis. Sepalu breviter 
unguiculata, ungue descendente 2-3 mm. longo; lamina basi abrupte sursum 
curvata, ovato-elliptica, Jeviter emarginata, 1:7 cm. longa, 1-2 em. lata. 
Petalu erecta, calcarata ; lamina oblonga, saepius leviter emaryinata, 1°38 em. 
longa, 7-8 mm. lata, calcare circiter 1 cm. longo inferne valde curvato. 
Stamina ecirciter 40, in toro convexo radiatim 10-seriata, exteriora sensim 
minora; filamenta subulata; antherae elliptieae vel elliptico-oblongae. 
Staminodi« in tubum 10-dentatum connata. Carpella 5-7, stricte erecta, 
arcte sibi adpressa, in angulo ventrali ciliata.—4A. flabellata, vay. fl. niv., 
Duren in Rev. Hort. Belge, 1889, p. 157.—T. A. Spracur. 
The Aguilegia which forms the subject of our plate is a 
white-flowered form of the Japanese A. flabellata, Sieb. & 
Zuce., which Franchet & Savatier in their Enumeratio 
Plantarum Japoniae, p. 11, have treated as identical with 
A. glandulosa, Fisch. This view is not, however, generally 
accepted ; indeed the most recent view, advanced by Finet 
and Gagnepain (Contrib. Fl. As. Or. fase. i. p. 155), is that 
A, flabellata may be no more than a variety of A. sibirica, 
Lamk, characterised by shorter stems and larger cauline 
leaves, and by having the limb of the petals not much 
shorter than the sepals. From the gardening point of 
view, however, A. flabellata must be regarded as sufficiently 
distinct from A. sibirica to deserve separate treatment. The 
stems of A. flabellata are generally three-flowered, having a 
terminal and two axillary flowers; of these the terminal 
January, 1911. 
