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AQUILEGIA glauca. 

 Glaucous Columbine. 



POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Ranunculace^, 

 AQUILEGIA. Botanical Register, vol. U.fol. 922. 



ylauca; perennis, glauca, subpubescens, caule folioso plurifloro, folioli® 

 trifidis cuneatis laciniis bitrilobis superioribus ovatis integerrimis, flori- 

 bus amplis (flavescentibus odoratis) pilosiusculis, sepalis ovato-lanceo- 

 latis acutis, petalorum calcaribus rectis lamina truncata brevioribus, sta- 

 minibus petalis subsequalibus, ovariis glaiiduloso-\dUosis. 



Another of the fortunate results of the large and continual 

 importations of seeds from the Himalaya mountains and Cash- 

 mere by the East India Company. 



It is a fine hardy perennial, growing well in any good 

 garden soil, and requiring the same treatment as the common 

 Columbine. Its stems are from one to two feet high. Its 

 flowers are deliciously sweet and appear in May and June. 

 It may be increased from seeds or by dividing the old plants 

 when in a dormant state. 



Probably, as this does not appear among the Columbines 

 enumerated by Drs. Royle and Wallich as found in the North 

 of India, it may be considered by these excellent botanists as 

 a variety of their A. puhiflora ; but if we arc to apply to the 

 genus in India the distinctive characters employed for the 

 species of Europe and Northern Asia, we must regard this 

 as being distinct from it, in the larger and sweet-scented 

 straw-coloured flowers, the nearly smooth stems, the very 

 glaucous leaves, and the shaggy ovaries. It is much more 

 difiicult to distinguish from A. fragranSt another sweet-scented 

 Indian species, which has however the spurs of the petals 

 hooked inwards, and nothing of the glaucous colour so strik- 

 ingly conspicuous in the foliage of A. glauca. 



