_ The early red Columbine of Virginia. Park. Th, p. 1367- 
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AguiILEGIA CANADENSIS. CANADIAN | 
: ~COLUMBINE. | 
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— Clafs and Order. : 
PoLyANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
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Generic Charaéter. 
Cal. 0. Petala 5. Ne@aria 5 corniculata, inter petala. Capf- 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. . 
AQUILEGIA canadenjis nettariis re€tis, ftaminibus corolla 
~~ Jongioribus. Linn. Sy. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. 
$s p- 535. Ait. Kew, v. 2. p. 248. a iy 
AQUILEGIA pumila precox canadenfis. Corn. Canad, 60. 
AQUILEGIA precox canadenfis; flore externe rubicundo, 
— medio luteo. Morif. Hiff. 111. p. 457+ te 2. 
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AQUILEGIA Virginiania flore rubefcente praecox, 
PaRKINSON Was not acquainted with this plant when he 
wrote his Parad. terr. but in his larger and more general 
work, the Theat. Pl. publifhed in 1640, he defcribes and 
figures it as a plant newly introduced from Virginia, by Mr- 
Joun Trapescant: Cornurtus, in his account of the plants — 
of Canada, gives us a reprefentation and a defcription of this 
plant allio; according to him, its ufual height in that country 
is about nine inches; in the gardens here it nearly equals the 
common Columbine, which it confiderably refembles in the 
appearance of its foliage, but differs in the form and colour of 
its flowers, the horn of the neétary is ftraighter, and the bloffom — 
in fome of its parts inclines more to orange, which renders it~ 
highly ornamental. Pets g 
It is a hardy perennial, and may be eafily propagated by 
parting its roots in autumn or fpring; it may alfo be raifed 
from feeds, which ripen readily here; thefe are found to be a 
long time in vegetating, as are others of this genus. 
We have obferved in fome gardens, a Columbine of more 
humble growth than the one here figured, called by the name — 
of canadenfis, and which moft probably is a variety of our 
plant, its bloffoms fpread wider, are of a pale red col i 
without any orange, and hence being lefs beautiful, i 
courfe, lefs worthy of culture, es ee 
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