AQUILEGIA. 
the habit of A. elegantula. In any case, whenever A. coerulea leptocera 
is ordered, it often arrives, indeed, but always proves a more or less 
uninteresting form of what apparently is the ordinary Columbine. 
A. dichroa is a small species from damp woods of Portugal. Its 
stems are from 8 to 20 inches high, its leaves divided into largish 
lobes, and glaucous-green above. The flower is not remarkably big, 
pink and white, or blue and white. A. dichroa var. Moelleriana is 
a minute form. 
A. ecalcarata is one of the oddest of the race. It comes from the 
Far East and has the subtle charm of Japan—a small plant about 
8 inches or barely a foot high, with pendulous flowers, full-faced and 
large, without any spurs at all, and of a burnt-sienna brown which, 
though at first sight unattractive, soon impresses you with your own 
barbarousness in having thought it so. For indeed it is a rich and 
sympathetic shade, taking hot tones of claret and chocolate against 
the light. The species is quite easy to grow in any open soil, and 
comes unvaryingly true from sced. (See Appendix.) 
A, Hinseleana. See under A. pyrenaica. 
A. elegantula must stand as the prior name of the graceful sum- 
mer-blooming American Columbine which often appears in lists as 
A. canadensis. It earns its name, indeed—a dainty tall grower with 
abundance of hanging flowers, long and narrow, with conspicuous 
spidery spurs of scarlet behind the yellow of the blossom. It is 
common and easy. 
A. eximia. See under A. truncata. 
A. flabellata, from Japan, is another plant that conveys the mystic 
fascination of the Hast. It is a stout and stocky little species, not of 
tall habit, but variable in this respect, for there is a specially dwarf 
form called nana by gardeners ; as a rule, the typical growth is about 
8 inches or a foot, with a mass of specially fat foliage, rather glaucous- 
grey, in ample lobules. The flowers are many and large for the clump, 
wide and shallow in outline, with hooky spurs. They are very thick 
and waxy in texture, and their plump star of lilac sepals is rounded 
in outline, while the inner cup of their petals tends to be a bowl 
rather than a trumpet; and in colour they are of a lovely waxy 
lavender, with the spurs and their petals of a creamy white. In 
cultivation A. flabellata is perfectly easy, sure and permanent and 
true—a neat and tidy species, early-blooming, and of special 
loveliness. 
A. formosa is a finer, dwarfer, and more vivid form of A. ele- 
gantula, and is sometimes also sent out under the name of A. arctica. 
A. glandulosa, one must conclude, is not in cultivation, the pretender 
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