130 BRECK’S NEW ‘BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
The leaves are pinnated, each consisting of from five 
to seven ovate accuminate leaves. Stems round, twining 
from six to eight feet high, in July and August. 
AQUILEGIA.—Co.umsrne. 
[From aguila, an eagle. The inverted spurs of the flower have been likened 
to the talons of a bird of prey.] 
Aquilégia vulgaris, and its varieties, are too well 
known to require description. They are all beautiful, and 
interesting when planted in beds or masses. They are of 
every shade of blue, purple-white, reddish-brown, rose, 
striped or variegated, with single, semi-double and full 
double flowers. Some of the single sorts are more desir- 
able than the double; particularly the large single blue 
and purple varieties, with white centers. In bloom in 
June and July. Propagated by dividing the roots, or 
from seed from choice varieties. All are perennial. 
A. Canadénsis, is one of the finest species ;. indigenous, 
common in rocky situations, flowering early in May and 
June. It has pendulous scarlet flowers, yellow inside. I 
have seen a pure white variety, growing in the crevice or 
seam of a rock, but, in my attempt to extricate it, the 
root was broken off and ruined, to my great sorrow. I 
have also seen a straw-colored variety at the Botanic 
Garden, Cambridge. This elegant vernal flower is much 
improved when cultivated, the stool increasing in magni- 
tude, throwing up many more stems, and the flowers en- 
larged. If some florist would undertake the task of 
impregnating the flowers of this variety with some of 
the fine garden species, no doubt, but very satisfactory 
results would be obtained. 
A. glandulésa, is a splendid and newly introduced 
species from Siberia. The plant is more dwarfish in its 
