32 POLYANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Aquilegia. 



A. n. 1 197. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 90. 



Napellus. Dod. Pempt. 442./. 



N. verus caeriileus. Ger. Em. 972./. Lob. Ic. G79.f. 



Eisen hutlin. Trag. Hist. 248./ 



Lycoctonum sativum tricarpum. Cord. Hist. 145. samef. 



In watery places. 



By the side of the river Teme, Herefordshire ; and still more abun- 

 dantly on the banks of a brook, running into that river, to all 

 appearance truly wild. Rev. Edward Whitehead, Fellow of Corpus 

 Christi college, Oxford. 1819. In watery ground on both sides 

 of a brook, at Ford, near Wiveliscomb, Somersetshire, in great 

 plenty, for the course of a mile or more, as well as in other si- 

 milar situations in that neighbourhood. Mr. Thomas Clark, jun. ; 

 from whom I received specimens, in July 1825. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root tapering. Stem erect, simple, leafy, clothed with minute 

 close hairs, and terminating in a solitary, simple, upright cluster 

 of large dark-hlac fioivers, without scent. Leaves alternate, on 

 short stalks, divided to the base into 5 lobes, cut into numerous, 

 linear, acute, somewhat revolute segments ; nearly smooth on 

 both sides ; paler beneath ; marked on the upper side with a 

 furrow along the course of the mid-rib. Our plant is certainly 

 the original Napellus, from which Prof. DeCandolle has sepa- 

 rated several formerly-supposed varieties, having broader leaves, 

 but of which he very candidly expresses his doubts, whether they 

 are good species. At any rate 1 would here retain the old welU 

 known specific name, though Linnaeus, who made no distinc 

 tion between these plants, has in his herbarium for Napellus the 

 A. neubergense oi DeCandolle, which moreover is figured, under 

 his inspection, in the Stockholm Transactions for 1739, t. 2, 

 as A. Napellus, and given as such by Ehrhart in his PI. Of. 87. 

 A. paniculatum of DeCandolle, which is what Storck happened 

 to make use of, and to publish, for Napellus, and which is Hal- 

 ler's n. 1 198. belongs to A. Cammaruvi of Linnaeus. 



273. AQUILEGIA. Columbine. 



Linn. Gen. 275. Juss. 234. Fl. Br. 578. Tourn. t. 242. Lam. 

 t. 488. Gartn. t. \\S. 



Nat. Ord. see. n. 270. 



Cal. none. Pet 5, inferior, ovate, mostly pointed, nearly 

 flat, equal, spreading. Ncct. 5, equal, alternate with the 

 petals, each of them tubular, gradually dilated upwards, 

 oblique at the mouth, the outer margin ascending, the 

 inner attached to the receptacle; their lower portion ex- 

 tended into a long tapering spur, obtuse at the extremity. 



