Davis : A SYNONYMIC CONSPECTUS OF AQUILEGIAS. 341 



A. pubescens COVILLE Contr. Nat. Herb. 4: 56, _^>/. /. 1893. 



Allied to A. chrysantha. Caudex scaly; flowers a very 

 clear yellow ; spurs shorter, only i to i ^ inches ; petal-limbs a 

 third as long as sepals. July. High altitudes Tulare Co., Calif. 



A. chrysantha GRAY in Gard. Chron. 1335 and 1501, f. 304. 



1873- 



A. leptoceras var. chrysantha HOOK. f. Bot. Mag. 6073. 



A. leptoceras var.jZava GRAY PL Wright 2 : 9. 1852. 



Height 3-4 feet; root-leaves with twice 3-branched petioles, 

 leaflets biternate ; stem-leaves several, petioled ; flowers many 

 on the plant ; 2-3 inches across ; sepals pale yellow, tinted 

 claret, spreading horizontally ; petal-limbs deep yellow, shorter 

 than the sepals and nearly as long as the head of stamens ; 

 spur rather straight, very slender, divergent, about 2 inches 

 long, descending when flower is mature ; follicles glabrous, I 

 inch long ; style half as long. May- Aug. New Mex. and 

 Ariz. Introduced 1891. Revue Hort. 1896: 108. Flor. des 

 Serr. 20; 2108. Floral Mag. 1873 : 88. Diet. d. Bot. i : 243. 

 Vicks' i : 33, /. 3. 



Var. aurea n. var. 



A. aurea JUNKA. in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr. 22: 174. 1872. 

 A. Canad^ensis var. aurea ROEZL., Gartenflora 258, t. 734. 

 1872. 



Flowers yellow and tinged with red, spurs incurved and 

 shorter than in the type. Gartenflora 21 : 734. 



Var. alba-plena HORT. Var. grandiflora-alba HORT. Flowers 

 very pale yellow or nearly white, with two or more whorls of 

 petal-limbs. Introduced. 1889. Vicks' 12 : 311. 



Var. nana HORT. A. leptoceras var lutea HORT. Like the 

 type, but plant always small, not exceeding i^ feet. 



Var. Jaeschkani HORT. About the same height as the last : 

 flowers large, yellow with red spurs. Thought to be a hybrid of 

 A. chrysantha and A. Skinneri, hence sometimes called A. 

 Skinneri var. hybrida HORT. 



A. longissima GRAY ex Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 317. 

 1881-2. 



Tall, somewhat pubescent with silky hairs, or smoothish : 

 root-leaves biternate even in the petioles, leaflets deeply lobed 

 and cut, green above, glaucous beneath ; stem-leaves similar, 



