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AQUILE'GIA FRA'GRANS., 
~ FRAGRANT COLUMBINE. 
EXOGEN, oR _ DICOTYLEDONEA. 
Natural division 
to which 
. this plant belongs. 
ee (ne divisions POLYANDRIA, 
to which PENTAGYNIA, 
estinetiak. ce Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 181. 
GENUS. Aautrecia. Linwazvs. Caryx quinquesepalus, deciduus, colo. 
a PETALA quinque, superne hiantia, bilabiata, labio exteriore 
0, de 
apice heen, inter sepala exserta. Ovaria plura,sepius peer ie CapsuLa 
totidem, erectz, polysperme, stylis acuminate. HERBz perennes, erectz. 
Fouta radicalia aut inferiora longe petiolata, petiolo trifido biternatim secta, 
bean s trifidis dentatis, superiora in lineares partita. FLores termi- 
es sepius cernui. 
SPECIES. Aeviireta FRAGRANS. Caule folios plurifloro sary eave foliis 
‘ioribus ovariis-que pubescentibus subglandulosis, foliorum inferiorum 
egmentis ultra medium os sont amie vix wi isting sepals orato- 
lanceolatis acutis, petaloru 
brevioribus, staminibus lamina parum Prcihinen 
CHARACTER OF THE Genvs, Aquitecia. Catyx of five sepals, 
deciduous, coloured, and petal-like. PrTa.s five, open at the top, 
two-lipped, the outer lip large and flat, the inner very small, pro- . 
duced downwards into as many hollow spurs, protruding between the 
sepals and terminating in a straight or curved callous end. Ovaries 
several, usually five. CapsuLes as many, erect, many-seeded, pointed 
by the remains of the styles. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, AQUILEGIA FRAGRANS. es erect, 
a foot or a foot and a half high, leafy, smooth or nearly so below, 
covered in the upper part with short hairs, ne er and 
somewhat glandular under the flowers, branched at pM eives 
of the lower part of the stem borne upon a long ota bind sheath- 
ing at the base, and twice divided above the middle into three 
branches, each of which bears three segments; segments sessile or 
slightly connate, divided to the middle, or deeper, into three obovate 
or wedge-shaped lobes, which are deeply cut into two or three entire 
blunt rounded teeth or crene; the general form of each segment is 
broadly obovate or rounded, they are of a glaucous green underneath 
