AQUILEGIA.] RANUNGULACE^. 13 



concave, spurred behind, spur honeyed. Stamens many, inner imperfect. 

 Carpels 5, many-ovuled. Follicles 5. Seeds many, testa crustaceous 

 smooth or granulated. DISTEIB. 1ST. temp, zone ; species 5-6. ETYM. 

 aquila, an eagle, from the form of the petals. 



A. vulga'ris, L. ; spur hooked, follicles cylindric hairy. 

 Woods and thickets, England and Ireland, often naturalized, ascending to 

 1,000 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. May-July. jRoo^io^stout/blackish. Stem 1-2 ft., 

 slender. Radical leaves fascicled, petiole long, 2-3-ternately divided, seg- 

 ments stalked, lobed, glaucous, glabrous or hairy beneath. Flowers l|-2 in. 

 diam., loosely corymbose, drooping, blue or dull purple white (or red in 

 garden varieties). Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Petals oblong; spur curved, 

 involute at the tip. Stamens declinate, rising and dehiscing successively ; 

 inner reduced to broad wrinkled white filaments, DISTRIB. Europe, 

 N. Africa, N. and W. Asia to the W. Himalaya. 



9*. DELPHIN'IUM, L. LARKSPUR. 



Erect, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, lobed or cut. 

 Flowers racemed or panicled, bracteate. Sepals 5, separate, or cohering 

 below, dorsal spurred behind. Petals 2-4, small, 2 dorsal with spurs 

 within the sepaline spur, 2 lateral spurless or 0. Stamens many. 

 Follicles 1-5. Seeds many, testa coriaceous wrinkled or plaited. 

 DISTRIB. N". temp, zone ; species about 40. ETYM. SeA^uV, a dolphin, 

 from the form of the flower. 



D. AJA'CIS, Reichb. (not L.} ; racemes long, lower bracts lobed, follicles 



solitary pubescent. D. Consol'ida, Brit. Fl. (not L.). 



Cornfields, naturalized in Cambridgeshire, sporadic elsewhere ; (alien or 

 colonist, Wats.) ; fl. June-July. Annual, pubescent. Stem 10-18 in., 

 slender, sparingly branched. Leaves cut into many narrow linear lobes, lower 

 petioled, upper sessile. Flower 1 in. diam., blue, white or pink. Sepals 

 spathulate-oblong, spur J in. Petals 2. Follicles in., cylindric ; style 

 short. Seeds continuously plaited all round. DISTRIB. Central and S. 

 Europe, N. Africa ; introd. in U. States. D. Consol'ida, L., which has been 

 occasionally found in England, has glabrous follicles, short racemes, and 

 seeds with interrupted ridges. 



IO. ACONI'TUM, L. MONKSHOOD, WOLFSBANE. 



Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, palmately-lobed or cut. 

 Flowers panicled or racemed, bracteate, proterandrous. Sepals 5 ; dorsal 

 large, arched, hooded ; anterior narrowest. Petals 2-5, small ; 2 dorsal 

 with long claws, hooded at the tip, covered by the sepaline hood ; 3 lateral 

 small or 0. Follicles 3-5. Seeds many, testa spongy rugose. DISTRIB. 

 Mountains of the N. hemisphere. ETYM. classical. 



A. Napel'lus, L. ; leaf-lobes pinnatifid, raceme simple dense-fld. 

 Shady places near streams, in Wales, Hereford, Somerset, Dorset, and Den- 

 bigh, naturalized elsewhere ; (a denizen ? Wats.)', fl. July-Sept. Rootstock 

 fusiform, black. Stem 1-2 ft., erect slightly pubescent. Leaves palmately 



