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Filam. numerous, 30 to 40, awl-shaped, erect ; the outer 

 ones shortest ; innermost abortive, dilated and corrugated, 

 closely enfolding the germens. Aiith. terminal, heart- 

 shaped, erect. Germ. 5, superior, ovate-oblong, tapering 

 into awl-shaped upright styles, with simple stigmas. Caps, 

 {follicles) 5, cylindrical, pointed, parallel, straight, of 1 

 valve, bursting at the inner side downwards. Seeds nume- 

 rous, ovate, smooth, keeled, at the edges of the capsule. 

 Perennial herbs, with fibrous roots. Leaves once or twice 

 ternate, bluntly lobed and cut ; the lower ones on long 

 stalks. Fl. terminal, drooping, blue, purplish, scarlet, 

 partly yellow, or green, the ibrmer colours varying to 

 pink or white ; their structure in gardens variously trans- 

 formed or multiplied. Qualities slightly acrid, astrin- 

 gent, or bitter, scarcely dangerous, except perhaps in the 

 seeds. 



1, A. vulgaris. Common Columbine. 



Nectaries about the length of the petals ; their spurs in- 

 curved. Leaves and stem smooth. Capsules hairy. 



A. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 752. mild. v. 2. 1245. Fl. Br. 578. 

 Engl. Bot. V.5. t. 297. Hook. Scot. 170. DeCand. Srjst. v. 1 . 334. 

 Fl. Dan. t.695. 



A. n. 1195. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 89. 



A. flore simplici. Raii Stjn.273. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 4S4./. 



A. cserulea. Ger. Em. 1093./. 



Aquilegia. Fuchs. Hist. 102./. Dorst.Bot. 30,2. f. 



Aquilina. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 577./. Camer. Epit. 404./. 



Isopyrum Dioscoridis. Column. Phytob. \.t. 1. 



/3. Aquilegia alpina. Huds. 235 ; excluding the synonyms. 



In meadows, pastures and thickets. 



/3. In more mountainous situations. At Matlock bath, Derby- 

 shire. 



Root tuberous. Herbage smooth and naked. Stem erect, 2 or 3 

 feet high, somewhat leafy, round, generally branched, and bear- 

 ing several flowers. Radical leaves on long stalks, twice ter- 

 nate j leaflets broadly wedge-shaped, bluntly lobed and cut, 

 glaucous beneath ; those on the stem more simple, and nearly 

 sessile. Fl. pendulous, bright purple, on purplish, somewhat 

 downy, stalks. Pe^. pointed. iVec^. much incurved at the end 

 of the spur. Germ, and caps, hairy. Dr. Hooker misquotes 

 Engl. Bot., as the iiiner stamens are there represented as im- 

 perfect. 



jS. Has scarcely more than one Jlower on each stem, and the necta- 

 ries are rather less curved. The whole plant is less luxuriant 

 and more elegant. A. alpina of Linnaeus bears blue^owers twice 



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