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A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



1-4 ft. long, rarely erect, mostly sprawling. Leaves stalked, 

 finely dissected. Flowers in a long raceme from among the 

 leaves. Spurs purplish-pink, about ^ in. long. Pod round, 

 about ys in. in diameter. In waste places. Newfoundland to 

 Florida. Rare in the interior. Native of Europe. August. 



562. Flowers blue or crimson. 



Flowers crimson Columbine no. 563 



Flowers blue Rocket Larkspur no. 564 



563. Columbine. Aquilegia canadensis. (Ranunculaccae.) A 

 delicate plant of rocky woods with basal and stem leaves that 

 are thrice compound. Ultimate leaf segments pale, wedge 

 shaped, deeply lobed, and with rounded blunt teeth. Flowers 

 crimson, rarely yellowish, the five spurs all with a terminal 

 knob. Fruit a collection of 5 beaked pods. Nova Scotia to 

 Florida, and westward. May. Fig. 563. The garden Colum- 

 bine, A. vulgaris, has blue flowers, and sometimes escapes. 

 It is a native of Europe. See No. 349. 



564. Rocket Larkspur. Delphinium Ajacis. (Ranuncul- 

 aceae.) An annual weedy plant 1-3 ft. high, branched, and 

 more or less hairy. Leaves finely dissected into almost thread- 

 like segments. Flowers blue, almost i in. long, in an open 

 cluster, with a single rather long and curved spur. Fruit 

 dry, hairy, beaked. In fields and waste places. Nova Scotia 

 to So. Carolina, and westward. July. Fig. 564. A taller plant, 

 D. exaltatum, with coarser leaves not so finely dissected and 

 with hairy flowers, is found from Penn. to Ala. and west- 

 ward. See No. 349. 



