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This species is the only American Aquilegia noticed in " Hortus Kewensis," Ed. 2, 

 wherein it is stated to have been introduced to English gardens before 1640 by Mr. John 

 Tradescant sen., flowering in April and May, — rather earlier than in its Canadian home. 



2. — Aquilegia fobmosa, Fischer. 



Plant robust, two to three feet high. Leaves very glaucous on the lower surface, 

 slightly so on the upper, the uppermost sessile leaves or bracts trifoliate, not at all 

 incised. Sepals spreading, lanceolate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, more or less acute, about 

 one-third inch wide, longer than the spui's, sometimes nearly twice their length, usually 

 bright red. Petals with a short truncate yellow lamina A^arying in size to half the length 

 of the sepals. Petal-spur puffed out (belly-like) in the upper half, rather abruptly 

 narrowed below, with a terminal knob. Styles as long as the sepals, the upper stamens 

 projecting considerably beyond the laminae of the petals. Follicles under one inch in 

 length, one-third as broad as long, hairy (or glabrous ?), with filiform beaks nearly their 

 own length. Pedicels hairy. Mr. Baker observes that this species is very near the 

 eastern A. Canadensis, from which it differs by its larger sepals, quite twice as long as the 

 petal lamina. 



Aquilegia fm-mosa. Fischer, in DC. Prodr., I., p. 50. Ledebour, Flora Eossica, I., p. 

 56. Torrey & Gray, Flora N. Amer., I., p. 30. Lawsou, Eanvinc. Cauad., p. 47. Eegel, 

 Gartenflora, IL, p. 219. Flore des Serres, VIIL, t. 795. Baker, Syuops. Aquilegia, Gar. 

 Chro., n. s., X. (18*78), p. 111. Watson, Bibl. Index., I., p. 7. Brewer & Wats., Bot. Calif., 

 I., p. 10. Macoun, Cat., No. 60, iu part. 



A. Canadensis. Hook., Fl. B.-A., I., p. 24, in part. 



A. Canadensis, var. Bongard, in Mem. Acad. St. Petersbixrg, Sc. Phys. et Math., ser. 6, 

 IL, p. 124. Torrey, Pac. E. Eep., p. 462 ; Mex. Bound, p. 30. 



A. Canadensis, var. formosa. Cooper, Pac. E. Eep., XIL, p. 55. Watson, King's Eep., 

 40th parallel, V., p. 10. Torrey, Bot. Wilkes, 216. 



A. ardica. Hortul. (Walpers.) Loudon, Steudel, Nomencl. Botauicus. Eegel, Gar- 

 tenflora, IL, p. 19. 



Queen Charlotte Islands, July 16th, 1878. — Dr. G. M. Dawson. Vancouver Island ; 

 mainland of British Columbia, from the valley of the Fraser to lat. 56', western slopes 

 of Eocky Mountains. — Macoun, Daivson. Sitka and Uualaschka. — Bongard. (T. & G.) 

 Sitka. Herb. Mus. Paris. — Walpers, 1. c. Rothrock. From Sitka down the west side of 

 North America to California, ascending in the Eocky Mountains to 6,000 — 7,000 feet; 

 Kamschatka, according to DeCandolle's Prodromus, but I have not seen Old World 

 specimens. — Baker. Oregon. — Nidtall. Some of the localities cited may possibly relate to 

 A. truncata. 



3. — AqUlLEaiA truncata, Fischer Sc Meyer. 



Flowers red with orange or yellow. Sepals spreading or reflexed, equal in length to 

 the spurs, which are gradually and uniformly narrowed from the open truncate mouth to 

 the apex. Lamina scarcely at all developed. Follicles six or seven times as long as broad, 



