326 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



K. recurv4tU8, Foir. Usually pubescent, erect, branching, 1-2 ft.: leaves 

 ail petiolerl and similarly S-parted : sepals longer than the pale yellow petals 

 and recurved: l)eaks of akenes strongly hooked. Common. S[)ring. 



6 AQUILfiGIA. CoiAMBiNE. 



Upright herbs, with compound leaves which have petioles expanded 

 at the base: sepals 5, somewhat petal-like: petals 5, each one produced 

 into a long nectary spur; pistils 5: fruit a several- 

 seeded follicle. Delphinium or larkspur is an allied 

 genus. 



a. Spurs straight. 



A. Canadensis, Linn. Common wild columbine. 

 Often incorrectly called honeysucJcle. Fig. 458. About 

 2 ft. : leaflets rounded or obovate, toothed at top: flowers 

 about 2 in. long, drooping, scarlet and orange or nearly 

 yellow, the stamens projecting. Common on rocks. 

 A. chrysdntha, Gray. Yelloiv columbine. Flowers 

 458. bright yellow, erect or becoming so. New Mexico and 



AquUegia Canadensis. Arizona, but frequent in gardens. 



aa. Spurs hooked at the end. 

 A. Yulg&ris, Linn. Bhie columbine. A European species, common in 

 gardens, and often full double: flowers varying from blue and purple to 

 white, with rather short and thick hooked spurs. 



7. CALTHA. Marsh Marigold. Cowslip (in America). 



Low tufted herbs with undivided leaves, and clusters of yellow butter- 

 cup-like flowers: sepals 5-9, petal-like: petals none: pistils 5-10, ripening 

 into several-seeded follicles. 



C. palustris, Linn. About 1 ft. high: leaves rounded or kidney-shaped, 

 crenate or nearly entire. Wet places, in early spring. Used for "greens." 



8. P.ffiONIA. Paeony. Piney. 



Stems shrubby and perennial or, as in the commoner garden forms, her- 

 baceous, from thick, fleshy roots: leaves ternately and pinnalely compound: 

 flowers large, terminal, solitary: sepals 5, unequal, leafy, persistent: pet- 

 als 5 to indefinite in number: ovaries 3-5, surrounded by a disk: fruit, 

 many-seeded follicles. Oriental. 



P. o!ficind.lis, Linn. Common gat-den pceony. Large flowers, double: 

 red, pink, flesh-colored to white: carpels 2, pubescent, forming 2 erect, 

 many-seeded follicles. June. 



9. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. Figs. 208, 209, 210, 233, 243, 244. 



Stems erect, simple or branching, with alternate leaves, petioled, pal- 

 mately-divided or-lobed: flowers in a terminal raceme or panicle, white, blue, 

 purple and showy, with irregular sepals and petals: sepals 5, colored, the 

 upper spurred behind; petals 4 (rarely 2), the upper pair spurred, and en- 



