318 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



petals five, with short spreading lips, and produced backwards into long 

 tubular spurs; sepals reflexed, longer than the spurs. 



This Columbine grows at great altitudes, and may be 

 found amongst the rocks at a height of 8000 feet, where 

 the soil is so light and sparse that there seems to be no foot- 

 hold for any vegetation at all, much less for such tall and 

 graceful plants as these Aquilegias, which stand from one 

 to three feet high and bear abundant blossoms of pale yel- 

 low, 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 barren cliff, their fragile loveliness shining 

 against a sombre background of stony walls, from the height 

 of whose overhanging ledges the blossoms nod down at 

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

 breeze. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN GRAPE 



Berberis repens. Barberry Family 



A low glabrous shrub. Leaves: petioled, pinnate, the leaflets three to 

 seven, ovate, obtuse, truncate at the base, sessile, thick, finely retriculated, 

 dentate with spine-bearing teeth. Flowers: in short racemes, the clus- 

 ters terminal and axillary, many-flowered, yellow. Fruit: a globose 

 dark blue berry. 



This shrub, which -is exceedingly ornamental, has yellow 

 wood and bright green foliage, which turns to a lovely red- 

 dish colour in the autumn. The tiny vivid yellow flowers 

 grow in short thick clusters; they have six bracted sepals, 

 with six petals opposite them, also six stamens. 



Berberis aquifolium, or Oregon Grape, is a taller shrub 

 than the preceding species, with five to nine oblong-ovate, 



