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a many-seeded follicle. Stout glabrous perennials with large 

 round to heart-shaped leaves. 



C. palflstris, L. 



Stem hollow, furrowed, low; leaves round or kidney-shaped, orenate^ 

 dentate or entire, the upper sessile or short-petioled ; flowers bright yellowj' 

 Wet places, spring, Man.-Alta. 



8. AQUILEGIA. Columbine. 



Sepals 5, petal-like; petals 5, longer than 

 the sepals, produced backward into large 

 hollow spurs; pistils 5, with slender styles; 

 pod a many-seeded follicle. Perennial herbs 

 with decompound leaves and large showy 

 flowers. 



1. A. canadensis, L. Wild CoLukBiNE. 

 Stem short, erect, 1-3 ft. high; flowers large, 



scarlet lined with yellow, nodding; stamens and Fig. 39. — Aquilegia 

 styles longer than the sepals. Wooded regions, canadensis. 



Man.-Alta. 



2. A. brevfstyla. Hook. Small-floweked Colombine. 



Stem slender, erect, with few leaves; flowers small, blue, the spurs short 

 and slightly incurved, making the flowers no longer than they are broad. 

 Cool woods, Qu'Appelle and Sask. valleys, Southern and Central Alta. 



3. A. flavSscens, Wats. Yellow Columbine. 



Slender, 1-2 ft. high, branching; flower yellow or yellowish white, the 

 sepals sometimes tinged with scarlet without. Foothills of Rooky Mts. 

 and eastward. 



9. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. 



Sepals 5, petal-like, irregular, the upper one prolonged with a 

 spur; petals 4, irregular, the upper pair prolonged into spurs which 

 are contained in the spur of the calyx, the lower pau* with short 

 claws; flowers in terminal racemes, showy; fruit a many-seeded pod. 



1. D. scopuldrum. Gray. Rocky Mountain Laekspue. 



Stem 1-6 ft. high, glabrous at least below; leaves S-7-parted, the divisions 

 of the lower wedge-shaped, those of the upper linear; only the lowest petioles 

 spreading at the base; flowers blue or rarely white. Calgary to Rocky Mts. 

 and northward. 



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