44 KANUNCULACE.E. Aquilegia. 



H— Flower pendulous in anthesis, the spurs therefore erect or ascending, and not over an 

 inch in length. Four species distinct in nature and habitat, viz. A. Sfcinnen of Mexico 

 and the following. 



A. Canadensis, L. Erect, early flowering, usually a foot high: flower red with some 

 yellow, rarely all yellow : spurs 3 or 4 times the length of their roundish yellow lamina, 

 and this not much shorter than the barely spreading sepals. — Spec. i. 533 ; Curtis, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 246; Schk. Handb. t. 146; Bart.'Fl. N. A. i. 130, t. 36 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 888; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 40, t. 14; Sprague & Goodale, Wild Flowers, i. t. 1. A. \:ariegata, 

 Moench, Meth. 311. A. ehgans, Salisb. Prodr. 374. A. flavijiora, Tenne}^ Am. Nat. i. 

 388, the yellow-flowered variation. ^ — On rocks, &c., Canada, from lat. 56° to Manitoba, 

 south to Florida and to New Mexico, probably not west of the Rocky Mountain district ; 

 fl. spring and early summer. 



A. formosa, Fischer. More spreading : flower carmine-red or scarlet : spurs little or not 

 at all longer than the widely spreading sepals and only about twice the length of their 

 roundish and truncate yellow lamina. — Fischer in DC. Prodr. i. 50; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 30; Planch. Fl. Serres, viii. 125, t. 795 (not Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6552); Lawsoii, Rev. 

 Canad. Ranunc. 75. A. Canadensis, Bong. Veg. Sitch. 124; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 24, in 

 part. A. arctica, Loud. Hort. Brit. 610, &c. A. Canadensis, var. formosa, Wats. Bot. King 

 Exp. 10, &c. — Alaska and Brit. Columbia to N. California, mountains of Nevada and S. W. 

 Utah, extending northeastward only to Idaho. 



A. truncata, Fisch. '& Meter. With lax spreading branches, rather late-flowering : 

 flower deep red or scarlet : spurs little longer than the widely spreading or reflexed sepals, 

 truncate at the yellow-margined orifice, the lamina being obsolete or very sliort. — Ind. 

 Sem. Hort. Petrop. ix. 1843, Suppl. 8 ; C. A. Meyer, Sert. Petrop. fol. & t. 11 ; Brew. & Wats. 

 Bot. Calif, i. 10. A. Canadensis, Benth. PI. Hartw. 296. A. Californica, Lindl. Gard. 

 Chron. 1854, 836, & 1857, 382; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 328. A. eximia. Planch. Fl. 

 Serres, xii. 13, t. 1188; Morren, Belg. Hort. vii. t. 52. ^ — Common throughout California, 

 probably in adjacent Nevada ; fl.. summer. 



•J— -1— Flower (never red) erect or soon becoming so, the long attenuate spurs dependent 

 or at first horizontal : lamina of the petals somewhat ample, obovate or spatulate and 

 spreading. 



A. CSerulea, James. A foot or two high, rather early flowering : sepals ovate, an inch to 

 inch and a half long, blue, as also the spurs of li to 2 inches : lamina of the petals white. — 

 James in Long Exped. ii. 15 ; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 164 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 30 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5477. — Along streamlet.s, lower alpine region aud below, Rocky Mountains, from 

 Montana to borders of New Mexico; first coll. by ^f/??(es. Apparently a smaller-flowered 

 form in S. Utah. Varies to paler, but westward seems always to be of the 



Var. albiflora, Gray, n. var. Whole flower white with merely bluish or purple tinge. 

 — A. leptocera, Nntt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 9; A. leptoceras, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4407. 

 A. macrantha. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech, t. 72, in letter-press (317) A. CKrulea. A. cteiulea, 

 Wats. Bot. King Exp. 10. A. ccerxdea, var. ochroleuca, Hook. Bot. Mag. under t. 5477. — 

 Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, Utah, to the eastern border of the Sierra Nevada, California, 

 north to Idaho and perhaps to Montana. 



A. chrysantha, Gray. Taller, more glaucous and floribund, summer-flowering: flower 

 yellow : sepals lancoolate-oblong, little longer and not broader than the lamina of the 

 petals : spurs 2J or 3 inches long, dilated at and near the orifice. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 621 ; Masters, Gard. Chron. 1873, f. 304 ; Meehan, Native Flowers, i. t. 7, poor. A. leptocera, 

 var. flara, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 9, & Bot. Mex. Round. 30. A. leptocera, var chrj/santha. 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6073. — Wet places in ravines of moderate elevation. New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and S. Colorado; first coll. by Wriijld. 



1 A. Canadensis, var. flaviflora, Britton, Bull. Torr. Chib, xv. 97. Anothfir form with .salmon- 

 colored flowers and pale leaves, the var. Phipp^nii, J. Robinson, Bull. Torr. Club, xv. 166, has been 

 found in the neighborhood of Salem, Mass. 



2 Add syn. A. formosa, var. truncata, M. E. Jones, 1. c. 259. Prof. Jones states that intermediate 

 forms "seem to occur" between A. truncata and A.Jormosa. 



