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AQUILEGIA. 
the stipe: seeds black. In marshes and low woods, northwest Wash- 
ington to Alaska and the Atlantic States, Newfoundland and northward. 
§ 2 Curysocoptis Gray l. c. Sepals linear or ligulate, atten- 
uate, greenish- or yellowish-white. Petals filiform or ligulate, 
enlarged and cucullate near the middle Scapes 1 3-flowered. 
C. occidentalis T.&G. Fl. i, 28. Leaves simply trifoliolate: leaflets 
long-petiolulate, roundish in outline, 2-3 inches long, 3-lobed to about the 
middle, lobes obtuse, slightly 3-lobed or incised and obtusely dentate: pet- 
als shorter than the sepals and apparently subulate from a subsessile ovate 
and concave base; mature follicles longer than the stipe; seeds oblong. In 
the mountains of Idaho. A little known species. 
C. venosa. Leaves ternate, coriaceous, smooth and shining prominent- 
ly veine4; leaflets ovate with cordate base, deeply 3-cleft, the divisions again 
cleft into 8-5 cuspidate dentate lobes, the terminal one long and the lateral 
ones short petiolulate: scapes at length 7-12 inches high, equaling or excee- 
ding the leaves: sepals petal-like, very narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate 
3-4 lines long: petals a little shorter, filiform, dilated and gibbous below the 
middle: follicles longer than the stipe: seeds oblong, chestnut-brown. — Cas- 
cade mountains near the head of Elk Creek Oregon. So fur as known only 
collected by myself, and distributed as C. occidentalis in 1881--82. 
C. laciniata Gray Bot. Gaz. xii, 297. Leaves chartaceous, ternate, triter- 
nate, or ternate-quinate; the ovate leaflets deeply 3-5-cleft, acute and acute- 
ly toothed: sepals linear-lanceolate, 4—5 lines long, spreading or reflexed: 
petals a third shorter, nearly filiform, cucullate in the middle: follicles 4-5 
lines long, exceeding the stipe: seeds oval. Along streams, Coast and Uas- 
cade mountains from Oregon to northern California, 
C. asplenifolia# Salisb. |. c. 305. Leaves pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets all 
rather long-petiolulate, mostly ovat:-oblong in outline and pinnately 
5-parted or divided ; Jowest pair of pinne commonly petiolulate and ubper 
confluent all 3-5-cleft and incised: sepals filiform, 2-3 lines long: petals 
filiform with a thickened and concave nectary below the middle: mature 
follicles shorter than the stipe. Damp woods and marshes, Alaska to Brit. 
Columbia. To be looked for in northern Washington. : 
10. AQUILEGIA Tourn. Inst. 428. L. Gen. n. 684. 
Perennial herbs with biternate or triternate leaves and showy 
terminal flowers in early summer. Sepals 5, colored and petal- 
oid. Petals 5, alternate with the sepals, with short spreading 
lips, and produced backwards into long tubular spurs. Stamens 
many, the outer ones long-exserted, the inner ones reduced to 
thin scales. Follicles 5, sessile, pointed with the slender style. 
A. formosa Fischer in DC. Prod. i, 50. Sparingly pubescent with soft 
spreading hairs: stems branching, 2—4 feet high, from a simple or branched 
fleshy fusiform root: lower leaves triternate, on long petioles, the upper sessile 
and ternate or reduced to simple bracts: leaflets broadly cuneate, 3-cleft, the 
divisions variously 3—5-lobed: flowers red,pendutous in anthesis; sepals sprea- 
ding or reflexed, 10-14 lines long, lanceolate, abruptly narrowed to a short 
claw: spurs little or not at alllonger than the sepals: style not longer than the 
stamens: follicles an inch long by 2 lines wide. Common from California 
to Alaska Nevada and Utah. 
A. truncata F.& M. Ind. Sem. Petr. Suppl. 8. (1843,) Glabrous: stems 
1-3 feet high, with lax spreading branches: flowers 1-2 inches in diameter, 
red tinged with yellow: sepals widely spreading or reflexed: petals trun- 
cate, the limb very short; the spurs 6-9 lines long, thick and blunt. In 
