coptis. RANUNCULACEiE. 21 



AQUILEGIA. 



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

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



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

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

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



C. occidentalis 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 species. 



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

 ly veined ; 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 petiolul ate: scapes at length 7-12 inches. high, equaling or excee- 

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

 3-1 lines long: petals a little shorter, Aliform, dilated and gibbous below the 

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

 cade mountains near the head of Elk Creek Oregon. So far as known only 

 •collected by myself, and distributed as C. occidentalis in 1881-82. 



C. laciniata Gray Bot. Gaz. xii, 207. Leaves chartaceous, ternate, triter- 

 nate, or ternate- qui n ate; the ovate leaflets deeply 3-5-cleft, acute and acute- 

 ly toothed: sepals linear -lanceolate, 1-5 lines long, spreading or reflexed: 

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

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

 cade mountains from Oregon to northern California, 



C. aspleuifolia Salisb. 1. c. 303. Leaves pinnately 5-foliolate; leaflets all 

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

 5-parted or divided ; lowest pair of pinnae commonly 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. 428. 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. formosa Fischer in DC. Prod, i, 50. Sparingly pubescent with soft 

 spreading hairs: stems branching, 2-1 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 cuneate, 3-cleft, the 

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

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

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

 stamens: follicles an inch long by 2 lines wide. Common from California 

 to Alaska Nevada and Utah. 



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

 1-3 feet high, with lax spreading branches: 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 



