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five petals terminated in an incurved horu-like spur. It derives 

 its name, Columbine, from the fancied resemblance of its flowers 



A:)rlL^r,IA \I'\,gArIs { C oln ml^! Hi'). 



to a nest of doves, columha being Latin for a dove. — Woods and 

 heaths. — Y\. May — July. Perennial. 



*i2. DriLPHfNiUM (I^arkspur). — Erect herbs; leaves divided; 

 flowers in racemes, monosymmetric ; sepals 5, petaloid, deciduous, 

 the posterior one with a long spur ; petals 2 — 4, the two posterior 

 ones spurred and enclosed within the spur of the calyx ; frmt of 

 I — 5 follicles. (Name from the Greek iltpphis, a dolphin, from a 

 fancied resemblance in the form (if the flower.) 



