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the petals. Petal-spurs incurved, knobbed at the end, about equal in length to the lamina. 

 Stamens and styles short, included. Follicles pubescent. General aspect of A. vulgaris, 

 but more delicate in stem, foliage, and flowers, the last much smaller ; the stamens and 

 styles shorter. 



Aquilegia brevistyla. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am., I., p. 24. Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. A., I., p. 30. 

 Lawson, Eanunc. Canad., p. 4*7. Hook, f , Arct. PI., pp. 284 and 313. Baker, Gard. Chro., 

 X., p. 20, (18*78). Watson, Bibl. Index, I., p. 6. Macoun, Catalogue, No. 61. 



A. vulgaris? Eichardson, in Franklin's 1st. Journal, ed. 2., App., p. 21. 



A. vulgaris var. brevisti/la. Gray, Am. Jour. Sc. ser. 2, XXXIII., p. 410 Porter, Fl. 

 Colorado, p. 4. 



Western parts of Canada. — Drummond. As far north as Bear Lake. — Richardson. Clear 

 Water Eiver, July 13th ; Nipigou, 1853 ; Fort Simpson. — McTavish; also, in a parcel fi-om 

 McTavish labelled " L. Nipigon, chiefly near Lake Superior." — Herb. Lawson. Eeceived 

 from Mackenzie Eiver. — Barnslon. Eocky Mountains. — Bourgeau. Sitka, Hudson Bay Ter- 

 ritory, and down the Eocky Mountains as far south as Colorado. — Baker. Telegraph Trail, 

 B.C., and Peace Eiver, at the Eocky Mountain Portage, lat. 56". — Macmm. This species 

 was not known west of the Eocky Mountains until found in British Columbia by Prof. 

 Macoun. But Sir Joseph Hooker remarked in 1860, (Dist. Arct. PI.) that he had seen 

 specimens of a Sitka plant, in an indifierent state, which were a great deal like it, and 

 that brevistyla was allied to the Siberian A. parviflora, Led. 



6. — Aquilegia vulgaris, Linnœus. 



Spurs incurved like acrozier, shorter than the very broad lamina. Stamens exserted, 

 the inner ones fi-ecjuently imperfect. Sepals ovate-lanceolate with acute tips, twice the 

 length of the spurs. Flowers large, most commonly blue, but varying to purple, rose, 

 white, etc. Cultivated varieties are striped or have double flowers, having two or more 

 rows of petals. 



Aquilegia vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI., p. *752. Eng. Bot., t. 29V. DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 334 

 (with a page and a half of synonyms and references.) Bab., Man. ed. 3, p. 10. Hook, f , 

 Student's Fl., p.ll. Gray, Manual, ed. 5, p. 45. Lawson, Eanunc. Canad., p. 4'7. Macoun, 

 Cat., No. 62. 



Abundant in the neighbourhood of Prince's Lodge, Halifax County, the property for- 

 merly occupied by H. E. H. the Duke of Kent, and in spots along the Eailway Line ; also 

 in several places on the road between Halifax and Windsor. About the end of June the 

 deep railway cutting at Prince's Lodge looks like a magnificent flower garden from the 

 abundance of this plant, in every variety of colour, on the rocky cliffs. 



Genus XII.— DELPHINIUM, Linnœus. 



Bentham and Hooker, Genera Plantarum, I., p. 9. 



List of species :— 



1. D. scopvlloritm. 



2. D. Menziesii. 



3. D. variegatum. 



4. D. azureum. 



5. D. Ajacis. 



6. D. orientale. 



