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This Columbine grows at greut allitiulc^, and mas he tound 

 amongst the rocks at a height of Sooo feel, where the soil is 

 so light and sparse that there seems to be no foothold for anv 

 vegetation at all, much less for such tall and graceful plants 

 as these Aquilcgias, which stand from one to three feet high 

 and bear abundant blossoms of palest purest yellow, pendent 

 on their brittle stalks. 



The foliage of the Yellow Columbine is much smaller and 

 more delicate than that of A.formosa ; but it is equally dark 

 green above and pale green beneath. No prettier sight can 

 be seen than clusters of these wild elfin flowers growing at 

 the edge of some great barren cliff, their fragile loxeliness 

 shining against a sombre background of stonv walls, from the 

 height of whose overhanging ledges the drooping blossoms nod 

 down at the traveller, as they sway and swing at the bidding 

 of the breeze. 



YELLOW POND LILY 



Nttphar polysepalion. Water-lily Family 



Leaves: all floating, eight to fourteen inches in diameter, broad-ovate, 

 thick, deeply cordate, on stout half-cylindrical petioles. Flowers: two to 

 live inches in diameter ; sepals eight to twelve, une(|ual. concave and 

 roundish ; petals eleven to eighteen, dilated, truncate, shorter tlian the 

 stamens. Fruit: globose, indehiscent. 



This Pond Lily has numerous rounded concaxe sejxils, which 

 are of a deep orange-vellow colour inside and usualh streaked 

 and blotched with purple-red on the outside, and assume the 

 functions of petals; for the real petals of this i-)lant. though 

 very numerous, are inconspicuous and resemble the stamens. 

 being thick, short, and fleshy. 



The Yellow Pond Lily is not so beautiful as its cousin, the 

 White Water-lily, yet the golden-hued mountain s]iecies is \ cry 

 fragrant ; it has handsome floating foliage, antl (lowers which 

 poets have not disdained to praise. 



