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AQUILBGIA. 



the stipe: seeds black. In marshes and low woods, northwest Wash- 

 ington to Alaska and the Atlantic States, Newfoundland and northward. 



§ 2 Oheysocoptis Gray 1. c. Sepals linear or ligulate, atten- 

 uate, greenish- or yellowish-white. Petals iiliform or ligulate, 

 enlarged and cucuUate near the middle Scapes 1 3-flowered. 



C. opcidentalis T. & G. Fl. i, 28. Leaves simply trifoliolate : leaflets 

 long-petiolulate, roundish in outline, 2-3 inches long, 3-lobed to about the 

 middle, lobes obtuse, slightly 3-lobed or incised and obtusely dentate : pet- 

 als shorter than the sepals and apparently subulate from a subsessile ovate 

 and concave base ; mature follicles longer than the stipe ; seeds oblong. In 

 the mountains of Idaho. A little known specires. 



C. venosa. Leaves ternate, coriaceous, smooth and shining prominent- 

 ly veins'! ; leaflets ovate with cordate base, deeply 3-cleft, the divisions again 

 cleft into 3-5 cuspidate dentate lobes, the terminal one long and the lateral 

 ones short petiolulate: scapes at length 7-13 inches high, equaling or excee- 

 ding the leaves: sepals petal-like, very narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate 

 S-i lines long: petals a little shorter, filiform, dilated and gibbous below the 

 middle: follicles longer than the stipe: seeds oblong, chestnut-brown. Cas- 

 cade mountains near the head of Elk Creek Oregoii. 8o fur as known only 

 collected by myself, and distributed as C oc(\identalii in 1881-82. 



C. laciniata Gray Bot. Gaz. xii, 237. Leaves chartaceous, ternate, triter- 

 nate, or ternate-quiuate; the ovate leaflets deeply 3-5-cleft, acute and acute- 

 ly toothed: sepals linear -lanceolate, 4-5 lines long, spreading or reflexed: 

 petals a third shorter, nearly filiform, cucuUate in the middle: follicles 4-5 

 lines long, exceeding the stipe: seeds oval. Along streams, Coast and i Cas- 

 cade mountains fmm Oregon to northern California. 



C. asplenifolia Salisb. 1. c. 303. Leavei pinnately 5-foliolate ; leaflets all 

 rather long-petiolulate, mostly ovatt-oblong in outline and pinnately 

 5-parted or divided ; lowest pair of pinnae commoiily petiolulate and ubper 

 confluent all 3-5-cleft and incised: sepals filiform, 2-3 lines long : petals 

 filiform With a thickened and concave nectary below the middle : mature 

 follicles shorter than the stipe. Damp woods and marshes, Alaska to Brit. 

 Columbia. To be looked for in northern Washington. 



10. AQUILEGIA Tourn. Inst. 438. L. Gen. n. 684. 



Perennial herbs with biternate or triternate leaves and showy 

 terminal flowers in early summer. Sepals 5, colored and petal- 

 •oid. Petals 5, alternate with the sepals, with short spreading 

 lips, and produced backwards into long tubular spurs. Stamens 

 many, the outer ones long-exserted, the inner ones reduced to 

 thin scales. Follicles 5, sessile, pointed with the slender style. 



A. formqsa Fischer in DO. Prod, i, 50. Sparingly pubescent with soft 

 ^spreading haii's: stems branching, 3-4 feet high, from a simple or branched 

 .fleshy fusiform root: lower leaves triternate, on long petioles, the upper sessile 

 and ternate or reduced to simple bracts: leaflets broadly cuheate, 3-cleft, the 

 'divisions vaiiously 3-5-lobed: flowers red,pendulous in anthesis; sepals sprea- 

 ding or reflexed, 10-14 lines lona;, lanceolate, abruptly narrowed to a short 

 claw: spurs little or not at all longer than the sepals : style -not longer tlaan the 

 : stamens: follicles an inch long by 3 lines wide. Common from California, 

 ito Alaska If evada and Utah. 



A. truntiata F. & M. Ind. Sem. Petr. Suppl. 8. (1843,) Glabrous : stems 

 1-3 feet high, with lax spreading bra,nches : flowers 1-2 inches in diameter, 

 red tinged, with yellow : sepals widely spreading or reflexed : petals trun- 

 ,cate, the limb very short ; the spurs 6-9 lines long, thick and blunt. In 



