KANUNCULACE.<£. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 13 
(Name from Afar, to injure , and j Qopd,food, from their well-known 
poisonous properties.) — One species has been introduced, viz. 
1. II. viridis, L. (Green Hellebore.) Root-leaves gla¬ 
brous, pedate ; those of the stem nearly sessile at the ramifications ; 
calyx spreading, greenish. — Near Brooklyn and Jamaica, Long 
Island, in old fields, naturalized. April. 
13. AQl ILEGIAy L. Columbine. 
Sepals 5, regular, colored like the petals. Petals 5, with a short 
spreading lip, produced backwards into long tubular spurs, much 
longer than the calyx. Pistils 5, with slender styles. Pods 
erect, many-seeded. - Perennials, with 2- 3-ternately compound 
leaves, the leaflets lobed. Flowers large and showy, terminating 
the branches. (Name from aquila, an eagle, from some fancied 
resemblance of the spurs to talons.) 
Ca,,a,1 « asis * L (Wild Columbine.) Spurs nearly 
rnm 8ht ’ s ' am * ns l and 8t >' les longer than the ovate sepals. — Rocks, 
ed root'’ 1 h" ~ T A f ° 0t lllgh ’ * ro,n a P er pendicular thicken- 
Lar et vetow 0113 ^ ^ S ' aUC ° US benea ‘ h ' Flowers 2' long, 
14. DELPHINIUM, L. Larkspur. 
^ Sepals 5, irregular, the upper one produced into a spur at the 
lone's 6 l ’. lrregU,ar ’ the u PP er P air Produced backwards into 
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Cultivated in gardens. GFS P ur Pl Js h-bIue, downy. 
Iy ^-Parted/their divistol^'uneqlint^ L _' K * 8Pl,R ) Leaves deep- 
“ ; Tatemefae-jUneered, W ; sjur 
