42 CIJOWFOOT FA:iirLY. 



16. AQUILEGIA, COLUMBINE. (From Latin acpdlpgns, vater- 

 drawiiig, of obscure application.) IJ. Well-known ornamental lierb.s, 

 flowering in spring and early suinnior, with erect or dr,)pping flowers of 

 various colors. Sepals 5, colored ; petals 5, each produced into a long, 

 slender, straight, or hooked spur ; pistils 5, forming narrow pods. 

 Leaves ternately compound or decompound. The species are much 

 modified by cultivation, and garden forms are rarely typical. Often, 

 but erroneously, called Humcyslckle. 



* Corolla toith long straight spitm ; North American species- 

 ■*- Floioers pendulous, the sjjurs therefore ascending, often red. 



A. Canadensis, Linn. Wild C. Flowers about 2' long, scarlet and 

 orange, or light yellow inside, the petals with a very short lip or blade, 

 and stamens projecting. Common on rocks. 



A. Skinneri, Hook. Mexican C, is taller, later, and considerably larger- 

 flowered than the last, the narrower acute sepals usually tinged greenisli ; 

 otherwise very similar. 



A. truncdta, Fisch. & Meyer (also known as A. Califohxica and A. 

 KXiMiA), from California is l°-2° high, with red, yellow-tinged flowers 

 l'-2 i' across, spreading or reflexed sepals, and petals truncate with a very 

 short limb ; spurs V-^' long, thick, and blunt. 



A. formbsa, Fischer. Flower carmine-red or scarlet, spurs about 

 equaling the wide-spi-eading sepals, only about twice the length of the 

 roundish yellow blade, the limb of the petals longer than in the last, and 

 extending upwards on the outer side. Kocky Mountains. 

 -1- 4- Flowers erect or becoming so, 7iever red. 



A. ccerulea, James. Lo\g-spuured C, native of the Kocky Mountains, 

 has blue and white flowers, tlie ovate sepals often 11', the very slender 

 .spurs 2' long, the blade of the petals (white) half the length of the (mostly 

 blue) sepals, spreading. 



A. chrysdntha, Gray, from New Mex. and. Ariz., has bright yellow 

 flowers, the sepals lance-oblong and about equaling the blade of the 

 petal;?; spurs long (2 ^'-3'). 



* * Corolla with hooked or inctirved spws ; Old World. 



A. vulgaris, Linn. Common Gardisn C. Common in gardens, l°-3° high, 

 many-flowered ; spurs rather longer than the blade or rest of the petal ; 

 pods pubescent. Flowers varying from blue to purple, white, etc., greatly 

 changed by culture, often full double, with spur within spur, sometimes 

 all changed into a rosette of plane petals or sepals. 



A. glandulbsa, Fischer. Glandvlau C. A choice species, 6'-l° high, 

 with fewer, very showy deep blue flowers, the blade of the petals white or 

 white-tipped and twice the length of the short spurs ; pods and summit 

 of the plant glandular-pubescent. 



A. Sibirica, Lam. Sip.kkian C. Equally clioice with the last, and like 

 it ; but the spurs longer than the mostly white-tii)i)ed short blade, as well 

 as the pods, etc., smooth. 



17. DELPHINIUM. LAKKSPUR. (Latin: dolphin, alluding to the 

 shape of the flower.) The familiar and well-marked flower of this 

 genus is illustrated in Lessons, Figs. 239-241 ; the seed in Figs. 421, 422. 



* Annuals; petals 2, united; pistil 1 ; the leaves finely and much divided ; 

 flowers summer and fall. 

 D. Consdiida, Linn. Fiki.d L. Escaped sparingly into roadsides and 

 fields, flowers scattered on the spreading branches, blue, varying to pink 

 or white ; pod smooth. En. 



