AQUILEGIA. 
Central Rockies dwells A. saximontana, so rare and so little known 
that it seems hard on the plant already to be burdened with a synonym, 
and called also A. brevistyla. It is a small treasure, quite hairless, 
throwing up several stems not more than 5 or 6 inches high, and dis- 
playing flowers three-quarters of an inch across, bluish or pale blue. 
A. sibirica is a bicolor Columbine, perfectly smooth and with the 
spur longer than the blade of the petal. 
A. Skinneri, from Guatemala, likes a sheltered warm place in light 
soil. It rises to 2 feet or so, and its gracefully hanging blooms are 
greenish yellow, with long spurs of burnished red in August. 
A. x Stuartit has for its parents A. “glandulosa” (possibly A. 
jucunda), and A. olympica. One would not own the parentage, in 
this case, of so rare and unknown a plant as the true Glandulosa, 
unless the offspring’s habit be held to prove it. For surely from two 
species so hearty as Jucunda and Olympica an equally hearty child 
might have been expected to result ; whereas the influence of just 
such a miff as the true Glandulosa is exactly what might have 
been expected to produce an invalid. For A. Stuart has no 
constitution at all, wants the coolest and most careful treatment, 
and often will not respond even to that, and in no case for very 
long. None the less it is a most wonderfully beautiful thing, a 
diminished, much less leafy, and more delicate version of A. jucunda, 
but with flowers in no way lessened, though carried rather more 
definitely horizontally, and rather frailer in texture, looking extraor- 
dinarily large and rich as they balance on the fine stems of 6 inches 
or so. There are also other remarkable hybrids in this group, of 
sounder constitution, coming under the names of A. x haylodgensis, 
and all with their due inheritance of loveliness. 
A. thalictrifolia. See A. pyrenaica var. alpina. 
A. truncata (which has been A. eximia and A. californica) is a 
generally popular common garden Columbine of 2 feet or so, with 
pendent flowers, long-spurred, of yellow, orange, and scarlet; but 
especially valuable as a parent. 
A. viridiflora is an unshowy but pretty little blackish-flowered 
fragrant species from N. Asia, which has never made good its hold 
in English gardens, though it is often being introduced, and 
cherished as a rarity. (Da-Tung Alps, hot low rocks, 1915: most 
attractive.) 
A. viscosa, Rchb. See under A. pyrenaica. 
A. viscosa, Ten. See under A. vulgaris. 
A, vulgaris, the common wild English Columbine, is by no means 
to be despised in copsy corners of the garden; the genuine wild 
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