CROWFOOT FAMILY 



GOLDEN COLUMBINE 



AquiUgia chrysdntha. 



Native to Arizona and New Mexico; appearing in our gardens both 

 as primitive and in hybrids. May to August. 



Slem.—Thxtt to four feet high. 



Leaves.— Tyf ice. or thrice palmately compound. 



Wow««.— Abundant on the stem, golden-yellow with paler tints, two 

 to three inches across. 



5e^a/5.— Pale-yellow, often with a claret tint spreading horizontally. 



Peto/i.— Deep-yellow; spur about two inches long, slender, rather 

 straight, divergent. 



Stamens. — Many. 



Carpels.— SisvtxaX; follicles glabrous; seeds many. 



As a bright effective flower this 

 golden blossom, poised delicately in 

 air as if in upward flight, is cer- 

 tainly not surpassed by any other 

 inmate of the garden. 



There are several Siberian Col- 

 umbines in cultivation, which have 

 added much to the beauty of the 

 garden group both as primitives 

 and hybrids. They are character- 

 ized by lilac-blue flowers, both light 

 and dark, large sepals, short blunt 

 spurs considerably incurved, and in- 

 cluded stamens. Aquilegia glandu- 

 Idsa, Aquilegia Sibirica, and Aquile- 

 gia oxysSpala are the best known. 

 Among other Columbines may be noted Aquilegia Skinneri, an 

 interesting species from the mountains of northern Mexico, bear- 

 ing flowers with green sepals, greenish-orange petal limbs and 

 bright-red spurs. All these are probably perennials when at 

 home but do better in the garden when treated as biennials. 



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Golden Columbine. A quUgia 

 chrysdntha 



