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Aquilegia Hybrida. Two-Coloured 

 Columbine. 



Oafs and Order. 



POLYANDRIA PeNTACYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. o. Petala 5. Ncclaria 5, corniculata inter petala. 

 Capf. 5, diftinftae. 



Specific CbaraBer and Synonyms. 



AQUILEGIA hybrida; neaariis incurvulis, foliis fubtiliffime 



pubefcentibus. 

 AQUILEGIA vulgaris van %. fpeciofa : neftariis caruleis 



apice luteis. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 247. ? 

 AQUILEGIA bi color ; perigoniis et piftillis glabris, neftariis 



incurvis. Ehrb. Beitr. 7. 146. ? 

 AQUILEGIA fibirica. Donn Hort. Cantab, p. 127. ? 



This beautiful Columbine came up in confiderable num- 

 bers, among the feedlings of Aquilegia canadenfis % and may 

 perhaps be a hybrid production between that fpecies and 

 vulgaris. It appears to us however to be the fame as the 

 Siberian variety of A. vulgaris in Hortus Kewenfis, which is 

 faid to be permanent. If fo, it might be confidered as a 

 valuable acquifition ; but as fome of the flowers came entirely 

 ^•ue, and others altogether white, it is to be feared that it 

 ttay not be eafy to preferve its peculiarities, and that further 

 experience may not juftify our having made a diftind fpecies 

 of it. 



The leaves have none of the purplim hue of A. canaJe,t/is, 

 *nd are more pubefcent, feeling very foft on both fides ; on 



