40 CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



16. NIGELIiA, FENNEL-FLOWER. (Name from the black seeds.) (j) 

 Garden plants from Eu. and Orient ; with leaty srems, the leaves finely di- 

 vided, like Fennel ; known by having the 5 ovaries imited below into one 

 ."j-styled pod. Sfeeds largo, blackish, spicy ; have been used as a substitute 

 for sijicB or pepper. 



K. Damascena, Commox F or R.vgged-Ladv. Flower bluish, r:ither 

 large, surrounded and overtopped by a linely-dividod leafy invoincre, like the 

 oth^r leaves ; succeeded by a smooth inflated S-cellcd pod, in which the lining 

 of the ccll-i separates from the ouicr part. 



W. sativa, Nltjikg-Floweb. Cult, in some old gardens ; has coarser 

 leaves, and smaller rough pods. 



17. AQUILEGIA, COLUMBINE. (From aqiiila, an eagle, the spurs of 

 the petals fancied to resemble t.ilons.) U Well-known, large-flowered 

 ornamental plants : flowers in spring and early summer, usually nodding, so 

 that the spurs ascend. 



* NoMji Amtrican species, u-illi hug straii/ht spurs to the corolla. 



A. Canadensis, Wild C. Flowers about 2' long, scarlet and orange, 

 or light yellow iii-;ide, the petals with a very short lip or blade, and stamens 

 projecting. Common on rocks. 



A. Skinneri, Mexican C, is taller, later, and considerably larger-flow- 

 ered than the last, the narrower acute sepals usually tinged greenish ; otherwise 

 very similar. Cult. _ ' 



A. ceerillea, Long-spurred C, native of fhe Rocky Mountains, lately 

 introduced to gardens, and worthy of special at ention ; has blue and white 

 flowers, the ovate sepals olten 1 J', the very slender spurs 2' long, the blade of 

 the petals (white) half the length of the (mostly blu'c) sepals, spreading. 



, * * Old World species, with hoolad or incurved spurs to the corolla. 



A. vulgaris, CoMjiON Garden C. Cult, in all gardens, l°-3° high, 

 many-flowered ; spurs rather longer th.in the blade or icst of the petal ; pods 

 pubescent. Flowers varying i'ront blue to purple, white, &.e-, greatly changed 

 by culture, often full double, with spur within spur, sometimes all changed 

 into ii rosette of piano petals or sepals. 



A. glandulbsa, Glandular C. A more choice species, 6'-!° high, 

 with fewer very showy deep blue (lowers, the blade of tha petals white or white- 

 tippoil and twice the length of the short spurs ; pods and summit of the plant, 

 glanduliir-pubescent. 



-A. Sibirica, Siberian C. Equally choice' with the last, and like it ; 

 but the spurs longer than the mostly white-tipped short blade, as well as the 

 pods, &e. smooth. 



18. DELPHINIUM, LARKSPUR. (From the Latin name of the dol- 

 pliin, alluding lo the shape of the flower.) The familiar and well-marked 

 flower of this genus is illustrated in Lessons, p. 91, 94, fig. 183, 184, rJ2. 



* Gardin amnials from Eh.; with onli/ the 2 upper petals, imited into one bodt/, one 

 pi.<il, and leaves Jinelij and much divided: fl. summer and fall. 



D. Consolida, Field L. Escaped sparingly into roadsides and fields; 

 flowers scattered on the spreading branches, blue, varying to pink or wliite; 

 pod smooth. 



D. Aj&cis, Rocket L. More showy, in gardens, and with similar flowers 

 crowded in a long close raceme, and downy pods ; spur shorter : some marks on 

 the front of the united pct.ds wore fancied ti). read AIAI = Ajax. 



» » Perennials, with 4 separate petals and 2-5, mostli/ 3 pistih. 



Ti. grandifl6rum, Great-fl. L. of the gardens, from Siberia and China, 

 is_ 1° - 2° I'.igli, v.iili leaves cut into narrower linear divisions ; blue flowers, 1^' 

 oi^ more across, with ample oval sepals, and the 2 lower petals rounded and 

 entire. Various in color, also douWe-flowered ; summer. 



D. cheilfenthum, of which D. roRMbsuM, Showy L., is one of the 

 various garden forms, also ^ibenaij, i» Qommonly still Larger-flowered, deep 



