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pink or white ; their structure in gardens variously trans- 

 formed or multiplied. Qualities slightly acrid, astrin- 

 gent, or bitter, scarcely dangerous, except perhaps in the 

 seeds. 



1. A. vulgaris. Common Columbine. 



Nectaries about the length of the petals ; their spurs in- 

 curved. Leaves and stem smooth. Capsules hairy. 



A. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 752. M'illd. v. 2. 124.5. Ft. Br. 578. 



Engl. Boi.v.5. t.297. Hook. Scot. 170. DeCand. Syst.v. 1.334. 



Ft. Dan. t. 695. 

 A. n. 1195. Hall. Hist. V. 2.89. 



A. flora simplici. RaiiSyn.273. Bauh. Hist.v.3.4S4.f. 

 A. caerulea. Ger. Em. 1093./. 



Aquilegia. Fuclis. Hist. 102. f. Dorst. Bot. 30, 2./. 

 Aquilina. Matth. Valgr.v. 1 . 577./. Corner. Epit, 404./. 

 Isopyrum Dioscoridis. Column. Pliytob. \.t.\. 

 |6. Aquilegia alpina. Huds. 235 ; excluding the sijnonyms. 



In meadows, pastures and thickets. 



/3. In more mountainous situations. At Matlock bath, Derby- 

 shire. 



Root tuberous. Herbage smooth and naked. Stem erect, 2 or 3 

 feet high, somewhat leafy, round, generally branched, and bear- 

 ing several flowers. Radical leaves on long stalks, twice ter- 

 natej leaflets broadly wedge-shaped, bluntly lobed and cut, 

 glaucous beneath ; those on the stem more simple, and nearly 

 sessile. Fl. pendulous, bright purple, on purplish, somewhat 

 downy, stalks. Pet. pointed. Nect. much incurved at the end 

 of the spur. Germ, and caps, hairy. Dr. Hooker misquotes 

 Engl. Bot., as the inner stamens are there represented as im- 

 perfect. 



/3. Has scarcely more than one Jlower on each stem, and the necta- 

 ries are rather less curved. The whole plant is less luxuriant 

 and more elegant. A. alpina of Linnaeus bears hlaejlowers twice 

 the size of the vulgaris. Double varieties of our Common Co- 

 lumbine, with white, pink, or dark crimson flowers, are frequent 

 in gardens, and there is one whose nectaries are obliterated, and 

 the petals greatly multiplied, usually rose-coloured. 



274. STRATIOTES. Water-soldier. 



Linn.Gen.277. Juss. 67. R. Br. o79. Lam. t. 489. Gcerln.t.\4. 

 Nat. Ord. Palvicc. Linn. 1. Hydrocharides. Juss. 22. De- 

 Cand. 115. 



Cal. superior, of 1 leaf, tubular, erect, the border in 3 deep, 

 deciduous segments. Pet. 3, alternate with the calyx, 



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