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Var. flore-pleno HORT. Flowers longer and very showy ; 

 more or less doubled toward the center. 



A. alpina LINN. Sp. PI. 533. 1753. 



A. montana STERNB. in Regensb. Denkschr. 2: 60. 1818. 



A. Reutcriana REICHB. f. Nym. Consp. 18. 1878. 



A. Sternbergii REICHB. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 749. About 

 1880. 



A. alpina var. superba HORT. 



Stem nearly i ft. high, finely pubescent in upper parts ; 2-5 

 flowered: leaves biternate, petioled ; partial-petioles of basal 

 leaves 1-2 inches long with 3 nearly sessile leaflets, deeply 

 lobed : expanded flower 1*^-2 inches across, blue, rarely pale 

 or white : sepals i% inches long, half as broad, acute; petal- 

 limb half as long as sepal, often white ; spur slender, incurved, 

 same length as the limb : head of stamens not protruding : fol- 

 licles pubescent, i inch long, style much shorter. May-June. 

 Switzerland. Bot. Cab. 7: 657. Garden 9 : 17. 



A. glandulosa FISCH. Hort. Gorenk. 2ed. 48. 1812. 



Stem i to i y? feet, high ; glandular-pubescent in the upper 

 half; 1-3 flowered: partial-petioles of root leaves 1-2 inches 

 long, each with 3 distinct divisions ; leaflet segments narrow 

 and deep : stem-leaves few, bract-like : flowers large, nodding : 

 sepals bright lilac-blue, ovate, acute, almost i^ inches long 

 and half as broad ; petal-limb same color, but tipped and bor- 

 dered with-creamy white, less than half the length of the sepals, 

 very broad ; spur very short, ^ inch, stout, much incurved ; 

 stamens not protruding ; follicles i inch long, 6-10 in number, 

 densely hairy, with short falcate style. Allied to A. alpina, but 

 with shorter spurs, larger flowers, plant taller, greater number 

 of follicles. May-June. Altai Mts. of Siberia. Botanist 5: 219. 

 Floral World 1871 : 354. Garden 15 : 174. Gartenflora 289, f. L 

 Var. jucunda FISCH. & LALL. Ind. Sem. Petrop. 2. 1840. 

 Flowers rather smaller than in the type ; petal-limb white, more 

 truncate at the tip ; stamens as long as the limb. A variety 

 with some tendency to double. Bot. Reg. 33 : 19. Flor. des 

 Serr. 5: 535. 



A. Stuarti HORT. A recorded hybrid of A. glandulosa and 

 A. vulgaris var. Olympica. Flowers very much resemble the 

 latter parent in form of sepals and petals, and the former in 

 shape of spurs and in coloration. May-June. Introduced 

 1891. Garden 34 : 670. 



