206 TYPES OF BRITISH PLANTS 
I think, realise the kinship that at first sight seems so 
distant. : 
The Columbine is marked by the fact that each of 
its five petals has a deep, back-running spur, filled with 
honey to attract insects, and the sepals are also brightly - 
coloured, whereas the Larkspur is content with only one 
prominent spur, for which it has to thank a sepal. The 
petals are only two in number, and are reduced to mere 
honey-bags, or nectaries. The Monk’s-hood is marked out 
at once by the curious topmost sepal, which is inflated 
into a kind of dome, covering the top of the flower, and 
containing within it the honey-bearing petals. As the 
bee comes to visit these, it is bound to touch the stamens 
lying beneath, and later on, when these have shed their 
pollen and curled back, to touch the ripe and sticky 
stigmas. 
COMMON COLUMBINE. 
