4:2» The 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of thefe, and are 
large, and of aibeauriful blue. 6 
The feed-veflels follow, five to each flower, 
and contain large black feeds. 
It is wild in the woods of Yorkthire, and other 
northern counties, and flowers in May. 
: C. Bauhine calls it Aquilegia fylveftris. 
hine, Aquilegia flore fimpliti. 
J. Bau- 
The feeds of columbine are famous againft thé 
jaundice. Matthiolus prefcribes them with faf- 
fron; and there is no better way of giving them : 
they open obftruétions of the vifcera, and operate 
by fweat and urine. 
It is alfo excellent alone in fevers, and in the 
fmall-pox and meafles, to throw out the puftules. 
A decoétion of the roots and feeds makes a 
very good gargarifm againft fore throats. 
Dsinveal Sole OeNeeell 
1. Great-flowered Columbine. 
Aquilegia magno flore foliis majus divifis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The leaves ftand on long footftalks, and are 
divided into many fegments: but thefe are not 
broad, as in the common kind; but narrow, of 
a pale green, and fharp-pointed, 
The ftalks are two feet high, upright, redifh, 
branched, and firm. i 
Their leaves are few, and ftand at diftances. 
The flowers are in all refpects like thofe of the 
common columbine, but that they are much larger : 
their. colour. is a beautiful blue. 
“The feeds are contained in capfules, five fol- 
lowing each flower. 
-¢ It is common. in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in June, 
C, Bauhine calls it Aguilegia montana magno 
Sore. 
Gt vats oN. 
FOREIGN 
For all thefe purpofes the wild\ cclumbine is 
preferable to any of ‘the garden kinds: and this 
is the cafe throughout all nature, the cultivated 
fpecies having the moft beauty, but the plain na- 
tural plant the moft virtue. _ 
This plant has been taken out of the woods 
into our gardens, and culture has given it a gréat 
variety of forms and appearances, which fome 
have confidered as diftinét fpecies.. The common 
garden columbine, with large fingle flowers, the 
double inverted columbine, and the rofe columbine, 
as alfo the degenerate great columbine, have been 
called fo many diftiné&t'plants ; but they are no- 
thing more than varieties raifed from this ftock 
by various culture. 
There are other fpecies, though lefs common ; 
and thefe deferve to be diftinguifhed, 
SPECTES. 
2. Red Virginian Columbine. 
Aquilegia precox rubra. 
The root is long, thick, divided: into feveral 
parts, and edged with fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand upon long 
feotftalks : they are divided into fmall fegments, 
notched at the edges, and of a very pale green. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of this tuft; and 
are flender, weak, and but fix or feven inches high. 
They have a few {mall leaves on them, divided 
like thofe from the root, but into narrower feg- 
ments. 
The flowers are large, and of a bright red on 
the outfide, and yellowith at the mouth within: 
the horns or neétaria are not crooked, as in the 
common kind, but rigid and ftrait. 
The feeds are contained in fender capfules. 
It is a native of North America: We have it 
in fome curious gardens; where it varies from the 
natural fize, but preferves the character. 
Cornutus calls it Aquilegia pumila precox Cana: 
denfis. Others, Aquilegia Virginiana rubra. 
Ursus xX, 
LARKSPUR. 
DELPHINIU™M. 
HE flower confifts of five petals, one of which runs out behind into a long fpur: the (ee are 
contained in capfules ; three of thefe naturally fucceed each flower; but in fome fpecies they 
unite, and together form but one. 
Linnzus places this genus among his polyandria trigynia ; the filaments in each flower being nume- 
rous; and the rudiments of the fruit three naturally, 
one, when the capfule is to be fingle, 
and moft frequently; though fometimes only 
This plant fhews how difficult it muft be to form the charaéters of a genus, or larger divifion, up- 
on any one part; there being fpecies of Jark/pur in which the feed-veflel-is fingle. 
DIVISION 1, 
Common Larkfpur. 
Delphinium vulgare ceruleum, 
The root is long, flender, whitith, fimple, and 
has but few fibres, 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
The firft leaves are’ {mall : they ftand upon 
fhort footftalks, and are divided into a few feg- 
ments. They are of a pale green colour, and 
foon fade and wither. 
The ftalk is round, firm, and of a pale green, 
: divided 
