416 FLORA. 



x. Aquilegia coccinea Small. LARGE RED COLUMBINE. Tall, 3-8 dm. high, 

 sparingly pubsecent at the nodes. Leaves larger than in the next; leaflets with 3 

 main lobes, glaucous beneath, nearly orbicular in outline; sepals acute or acumi- 

 nate, 17-21 mm. long; spur, 30-33 mm. long; follicles straight, 20 mm. long, tipped 

 by a style shorter than the body. On cliffs and in rocky woods, Va. to Mo., Xeb. 

 and Ala. May -July. 



2. Aquilegia Canadensis L. WILD COLUMBINE. (I. F. f. 1559.) Glabrous 

 or somewhat pubescent, 2-6 dm. high. Lower leaves slender-petioled, biternate, 

 the ultimate leaflets cuneate, obtusely lobed and toothed, pale beneath ; leaves of the 

 upper part of the stem lobed or divided; flowers nodding, 3-4 cm. long, the spurs 

 12 mm. long, thickened at the end; stamens and styles long exserted; follicles 

 with spreading tips, about 16 mm. long, tipped with a filiform beak of about the 

 same length. In rocky woods, N. S. to the N. W. Terr., south to N. Car. and Kans. 

 April-July. 



Aquilegia Canadensis flavifl6ra (Tenney) Britton. Flowers yellow; foliage lighter 

 green than in the type. Mass., N. Y. and N. J. Rare. 



3. Aquilegia brevistyla Hook. SMALL-FLOWERED COLUMBINE. (I. F. f. 

 1560.) Slender, erect, sparingly pubescent, branching, 3-5 dm. high. Basal 

 leaves long-petioled, biternate, the ultimate leaflets nearly sessile, broadly obovate, 

 lobed and crenate; leaves of the stem few. nearly sessile, lobed or divided; flowers 

 small, nodding; spurs about 4 mm. long; stamens and short styles barely exserted; 

 follicles slightly spreading, 16 mm. long, pubescent. N. W. Terr, to S. Dak. and 

 Alb. June-July. 



4. Aquilegia vulgaris L. EUROPEAN COLUMBINE. (I. F. f. 1561.) Stout, 

 erect, 3-6 dm. high. Basal and lower leaves petioled, 2-3-ternate, the lateral 

 divisions broadly obovate, obtuse, lobed and crenate, glaucous beneath; the upper 

 few, lobed or divided; spurs 6-8 mm. long, stout, strongly hooked; sepals spread- 

 ing; stamens and styles hardly exserted. Escaped from gardens in the Eastern and 

 Middle States, in N. S. and N. B. Adventive or nat. from Europe. May-July. 



12. DELPHINIUM L. 



Erect branching herbs, with racemose or paniculate showy flowers. Leaves 

 palmately lobed or divided. Sepals 5, the posterior one prolonged into a spur. 

 Petals 2 or 4, small, the two posterior ones spurred, the lateral, when present, small. 

 Carpels few, sessile, many-ovuled, forming follicles at maturity. [Latin, from the 

 supposed resemblance of the flowers to a dolphin.] A genus comprising some 60 

 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some 20 others 

 in western N. Am. 



Annuals; pistil i. 



Follicle glabrous. i. D. Consolida. 



Follicle pubescent. 2. D. Ajacis. 



Perennials; pistils 3. 

 Follicles erect. 



Leaf-segments narrow, ultimate divisions linear or oblong linear. 

 Raceme elongated, pedicels almost erect. 



Bractlets close under the usually bright blue flower. 



3. Z>. Carolinianum. 

 Bractlets 2-4 mm. (in fruit even 10 mm.) below the almost white flower. 



4. D. albescent. 

 Raceme short; pedicels spreading. 5. D. Nelsonii. 



Leaf-segments broad, ultimate divisions lanceolate. 6. D. urceolatum. 



Follicles in fruit widely spreading. 7. D. tricorne. 



1. Delphinium Consolida L. FIELD LARKSPUR. KNIGHT'S-SPUR. LARK- 

 HEEL. (I. F. f. 1562.) Erect, 3-5 dm. high, divaricately branched. Leaves 

 short-petioled or sessile, all divided into narrowly linear cleft or toothed segments; 

 racemes terminating the branches, rather loose and few-flowered; flowers blue or 

 white, 3-4 cm. long; spur slender, bent near the middle; petals 2, united; follicles 

 8-10, tipped with a short slender beak. In waste places, nat. from Europe in 

 southern N. J. and Penn. to Va. and Kans., locally adventive or fugitive north- 

 ward. Summer. 



2. Delphinium Ajacis L. GARDEN LARKSPUR. Like the preceding, gen- 

 erally taller, 3-7 dm. high. Leaves with shorter and more diverging divisions; 



