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10. AQUILEGIA (Columbine). 



1. A. vulgdris (Common Columbine). The only 

 British species, common in gardens, to which it is in 

 spring very ornamental, with its delicate, folded leaves ; 

 and no less so in summer, with its curiously shaped 

 flowers, which are of various colours. When growing 

 wild, its flowers are usually blue or white. It may be 

 distinguished from all other British flowers by having 

 each of its five petals terminated in an incurved horn- 

 like spur. It derives its name, Columbine, from the 

 fancied resemblance of its flowers to a nest of doves, 

 columba being Latin for a dove. Fl. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



11. DELPHINIUM (Larkspur). 



1. D. Cons6lida (Field Larkspur). A doubtful na- 

 tive, though often found in considerable quantities in 

 sandy or chalky corn-fields. It closely resembles some 

 of the species commonly cultivated in gardens. Fl. 

 June, July. Annual. 



