AQUILEGIA. 
de Tenda, all the rolling woods are waving-blue with the acres of its 
blossom, floating down the distances in a haze of dreamy peat-reek 
like bluebells in an English May. To take the roots of A. alpina is 
hardly possible; and seed can never be obtained true unless you can 
get it with your own hands, or from some trustworthy authority on 
the spot. It may be owing to all these uncertainties, or to some 
inherent vice in the plant itself, but the Alpine Columbine, though not 
hard, it seems, of culture, has always been a disappointment in our 
gardens, and has earned for itself a bad name. It is murmured that 
it loses the size of its blossom in captivity, and fades with home- 
sickness into a sad flat indigo, lifeless and uninteresting. 
A. Amaliae, a glandular Columbine from Thessaly, like a smaller 
A. vulgaris, with flowers of blue and white. 
A. aragonensis does not exceed some 6 inches, with all the foliage 
coming from the base, and then a bare stem, carrying one nodding 
blue blossom with golden anthers. The leaves are simply lobed in 
threes and finely downy. (Mountain woods of Aragon.) 
A. arctica. See A. formosa. 
A. atrata. See under A. vulgaris. (This form is also called A. 
nigricans.) 
A. atropurpurea is a Russian species of no particular merit. In 
gardens the name is sometimes used for the dark purple variety of 
A. vulgaris. 
A. aurea is a species from the sub-alpine woods of Macedonia, 
forming cushions of foliage, from which rise up the 18-inch stems 
with large yellow flowers. 
A. Bauhinit. See under A. pyrenaica. 
A. Bernardii is a most beautiful and rare Columbine peculiar to 
Corsica, where it is found in the higher copses on Monte Rotondo and 
Renoso. It has, often, taller and less leafy stems than those of 
A. alpina, and the leaves (which are smooth underneath) are larger 
and less divided than in A. glandulosa. The flowers are enormous, 
wide open, and full, with particularly broad petals and the spur very 
nearly straight. They are larger than those of A. Reuwteri and A. 
Kitaibelit, of a most splendid and penetrating soft clear blue. 
A. Bertolonii. See under A. pyrenaica. 
A. brevistyla. See A. saximontana. 
A. californica. See A. truncata. 
A. canadensis. See A. elegantula. 
A. caucasica is a specially fine form of A. vulgaris. 
A. chrysantha (A. thalictrifolia, Rydb.) needs no introduction—an 
extremely beautiful species like a pale-golden version of the next, 
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