AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS. 



AMERICAN COLUMBINE. 



Polyandria Di-pentagynia, Linn. Ranunculacese, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix round. Petals 5. Lepanthia 5, corniculate, situated between the petals. Capsules 5, 

 distinct. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Nectaries erect, stamens ezserted. Willd. 



Plant from fourteen to eighteen inches high. Root perennial, 

 fibrous. Stems numerous, dichotomous, greenish below, purple to- 

 wards the peduncles ; often very slender in the crevices of rocks, 

 but in favorable situations as thick as represented in the figure. 

 Radical or lower leaves biternate, and divided irregularly ; the ex- 

 treme lobes or segments obtuse, the npper leaves simply termite, 

 toothed, and sometimes entire. Corollas greenish-yellow, with oc- 

 casionally a little dull-red down the central line. Nectaries long, 



