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226. Graridella. — Sepals 5, petaloid, caducous. Petals 6, 2-labiate. Follicles 2-3, sessile, 

 coterent at tlie base, and opening at the top ; style very short. Seeds 2-seriate. — Slender 

 herbs. Leaves finely multifid. Flowers small, white. Mediterranean Region. 



23. ♦Aquilegia. — Sepals 6, regular, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 5, like a cornucopia or 

 hood, attached by the margin of the limb, and nectariferous at the base of the cavity. Lower 

 stamens reduced to scale-Hke staminodes. Carpels 5, sessile, distinct, many-ovuled, follicular 

 when ripe. Seeds with crustaceous, smooth or granular testa. — Erect herbs; rootstock 

 perennial. Leaves ternately decompound. Flowers conspicuous, blue, yellow, scarlet, or parti- 

 coloured, solitary or panicled. Europe, Asia, North America. 



24. * Delphinium. — Sepals 5, petaloid, unequal, subcoherent at the base, the posterior 

 turned up in a horn or spur. Petals 2 or 4, small, all sometimes united, the two upper pro- 

 longed into a pointed spur included in that of the calyx ; the two lateral not spurred, or 0. 

 Carpels 1-5, sessile, distinct, many-bvuled, follicular when ripe. Seeds subfleshy. — Annual 

 herbs, or with perennial rootstock, erect, branched. Leaves palmatilobed Or dissected. 



Larkspur. Flower cut vei-tically (mag.). 



Larkfjpur. 

 Diagi-am 



Larkspur. 



Seed, entire and cut 



vertically (mag.). 



Larkspur. 

 Upper sepal. 



