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The second species has a laller sialk: the three leaves are placed 

 at a distance from the flower, which stands upon a long footstalk, 

 and is erect: the petals are purple, larger, and end with sharper 

 points. It is a native of Virginia, Canada, &c. 



The third has a purple stalk: the three leaves grow at the top 

 like the first; but they are much longer, and end in aculc points: 

 the petals are long, narrow, and sland erect; are of a dark brownish 

 red: the calyx leaves are streaked with red: the leaves mottled. It 

 grows in Carolina and Virginia. 



Culture. These plants may be increased by seeds, which should 

 be sown on a shady border as soon as they become ripe in the 

 autumn: when they appear in the spring, the plants should be kept 

 clean from weeds, and in the autumn following be planted out 

 where they are to remain and flower. 



They succeed best in a light soil, where the situation is rather 

 shaded. They afford variety in such places. 



3. THALICTRUM AQUILEGIFOL1UM. 



FEATHERED COLUMBINE. 



This genus contains plants of the hardy, herbaceous, fibrous- 

 rooted, perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Polyandria Poli/^i/nia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Multmliqitfe. 



The characters are: that there is no calyx, unless the corolla be 

 taken for it: the corolla has four petals, roundish, obtuse, concave, 

 caducous: the stamina have very many filaments, wider at lop, 

 compressed, longer than the corolla: anlhers oblong, erect: the 

 pislillum, styles very many, very short: germs man}', commonly 

 pedicelled, roundish: styles none: stigmas thickish: there is no 

 pericarpium: the seeds many, grooved, ovate, tailless. 



