AQUILEGIA. 
which so gloriously bears aloft the name in lucky gardens being the 
true A. jucunda of Fisch. and Meyer. A. glandulosa should be a much 
dwarfer thing, much more miffy and shy-flowering, though with big 
splendid blossoms of uniform dark blue. The labellum again, or 
blade of the petals at the centre of the flower, which is rounded in 
A. jucunda, is pointed in A. glandulosa, and the outspread sepals are 
oblong, not egg-shaped, and the stamens spray out in a bushy tassel 
instead of keeping more or less parallel with the opening bloom ; 
while the lips of the hook-spurred petals—the labella—do not touch 
all round as in A. jucunda, but the petals are wholly separate all the 
way down—thus giving a starry-eyed effect—and are pointed at the 
end, dark blue, and tipped with darker colour still. In any case, 
whether hard or easy, shy or bold, it is much to be wished that we 
could make acquaintance with the true-blue, star-faced A. glandulosa. 
A. Haenkeana is a fine alpine form of A. vulgaris, with leaves espe- 
cially deeply cleft, and few flowers (on naked stems), especially large 
and ample and limpidly cerulean. Another marked form is A. salva- 
torensis, from the mountain of San Salvatore above Lugano ; this is 
like a small version of A. Hinseleana, 86 fine are the flowers of deep 
purple with hooked spurs. 
A. haylodgensis. Seo under A. Stuart. 
A. x Helenae is a noble, solid, and robust-natured garden hybrid 
whose parents are A. flabellata nana and A. coerulea. The result is a 
really beautiful thing, of admirable constitution, erect and stiff, about 
15 inches high, with fine blooms of blue and white, large and firm. 
A. x Jaeschkanii is another garden hybrid of no special value. 
A. Jonesit takes us into altogether different regions, for this is a 
rare and very tiny treasure of the central Rockies, with all the little 
leaves at the base, their lobules gathered in close clusters; and then 
a naked stem, not more than an inch and a half to three inches high, 
carrying a single large blossom. This is a true alpine, and it is much 
to be hoped that Mr. Jones will now hasten up there again to procure 
us his Columbine. 
A. jucunda, Fisch. and Meyer, is the glorious “ A. glandulosa” of 
our gardens—a most vigorous and long-lived stalwart, forming increas- 
ing masses from year to year, and breaking up into mounds and clumps 
of vivid green foliage, high above which shoot the copious 18-inch 
or 2-foot stems, each carrying on long graceful foot-stalks several 
enormous flowers, very ample and splendid in outline, whose star of 
broad sepals is richly blue, while the no less broad petals, in a wide 
five-lobed-looking cup at the centre, are of a clear and conspicuous 
white. Enough has already been said as to the distinctions between 
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