15,000 feet. With us it flowers in the open border in May and 
June. 
Descr. Our plants have not attained to more than twelve or 
fourteen inches in height, and are entirely of a very glaucous hue. 
Radical leaves on long footstalks, bi-tri-ternate : all the leaflets 
petiolate, cuneate, three-lobed: ¢erminal lobes generally trifid, 
and more or less incised ; /ateral Jobes often and again cut into 
two or three large teeth: cauline leaves remote, on shorter and 
less divided or less compound petioles ; the uppermost leaf of all 
often reduced to a lanceolate dractea. ‘The stem is divided into 
two or three branches, each branch terminating in a rather elon- 
gated peduncle, bearing a single drooping flower of a purplish- 
blue colour, the petals white at the apices: in general shape re- 
sembling our common A. vulgaris ; but all the spurs are straight 
(not incurved), capitate at the apex. 
