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spreading, ^4—1 inch long ; petal-limb greenish-orange, half as 

 long as sepal ; spur bright red, tapering rapidly, over i inch 

 long ; stamens protruding far beyond the limb : fruit, at least 

 when voungr bearincr broad, membranous, curled wings : sts'les 

 3 ; after flowering the peduncles become erect. July-Sept. 

 Mts. of New Mex. andMex. Bot. Mag. 3919. Paxt. Mag. Bot. 

 10: 199. Flor. des Serr. i : 17. A handsome plant, requiring 

 a li^ht soil in a sunnv border. 



Var . Jlore-pleno Hort. Flowers double, ^'erv fine. Gar- 

 tenflora 34 : 57. 



A. formosa Fisch. in DC. Prod, i : 50. 1824. 

 A. artica Loud. Hort. Brit. 610. 1830. 

 A. Canad€7isis var. formosa Wats. Bot. King Exp. 10. 

 1871. 

 Habit as A. Canadensis, root-leaves and stem-leaves like that 

 species, but the flowers are brick red and yellow or wholh' yel- 

 low, and the sepals are larger, tAA'ice as long as the petal-limb, 

 more spreading : spurs somewhat more slender and often 

 shorter. Mav— Aug. Sitka to Calif, and eastward to the Rock- 

 ies. Introduced 18S1. Bot. Mag. 6552. Flor des Serr. 8: 



795- 



Var. desertorum Joxes Cont. Western. Bot. No. 8, 2. 1898. 



Stems about one foot high, flexuose : leaves and leaflets 

 rather small : flowers often onh" about ^ inch across, nodding : 

 styles slender. In crevices of rocks about springs. Flagstaff, 

 Ariz, (t ). 



Var. tnincata Baker 1, c. : Jones Zee, 4: 259. 1893. 

 A. tnincata Fisch. & Mey. 1843. 

 A. Californica Lixdl. in Gard. Chron. 836. 1854. 

 A. €ximia\ KsY^OMTTY. ex Planch. Fl. des Serr. 12 : 1188. 



1857- 

 Flowers ^^•ith short thick spurs and very small sepals and petal- 

 limbs. Introduced 1881. 



Var. hybrida Hort. A. Californica var. hybrida Hort. 

 Flowers large with scarlet sepals and yellow petals ; spurs 

 spreading, long and slender. A supposed h3'brid with A. 

 chrysaniha. Fl. Mag. 1877 : 278. Vicks' i : 33, y". 2. 



Var. nana-alba Hort. Flowers pale, often nearly white ; 

 plant not exceeding i foot. 



Var. rubra-pleno Hort. Flowers as in var. hybrida, but with 

 several whorls of petal-limbs. 



