eee ina Name too mean for fo elegant a Variety. Others 
Pl 309. 
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This is another of thofe Flowers which bear 
our Winters in the common Ground; and. need 
no particular Care or Attention to preferve them : 
’tis therefore valuable, as well as for its Beauty. 
The Gardeners have long known it, and the 
Generality of thofe who have written on Flowers, 
have mention’d it. They all agree in giving it 
the true’ Name Columbine (fo ah the Form of 
the Plant ‘and general Afpect of the’ Flower de- 
mands) altho” it does not preferve the common 
Character, which is the hooked Ne&aria, from 
whence the Plant obtain’d its original Name. _ 
~ Some of the old Writers have hence call’d it Aqui- 
legia degener, the degenerate Columbine; but that is 
“Rave more properly call’d it the Rofy or the 
Starry Columbine, Ayuilegia rofea, and Aquilegia 
| fiellants : 
and Joun Bavuine, moft diftinétly of all, Agui- 
. degia flore fimplici S pleno non corniculato : the fin-. 
-gie and double Columbine, without Horns to the 
©. Flower, ‘This Term Horn, has been given to the 
es NeGtaria, and the Name therefore is expreffive, © 
Columbine. This Ray obferv’d; who found 
fometimes on the fame Plant thefe F lowers, and 
others of the ufual Form: and this LInn2us 
confirms : 
- dumbine, which, in its. plain and original State, 
he calls Aquilegia neltariis. eee thet SSDP RE 
a s% - ve oe 4 
with crooked. Negaria. 3 
The Root. 1s: ‘Varge,’ -wbitiin; Teng, apd. idilck, 
‘divided into many Parts, hung with long F ibres, 
and of many Years Duration. 
The Stalk is a Yard high, flight, mprighe 
branched, reddifh, and a little hairy. 
The Leaves are large, but compos’d of many 
~. ‘Parts; thefe are difpos’d in Three’s, on branched | 
-'Pootftalks, and the principal of them are divided 
- fightly into three Lobes, by Indentings. Their 
Colour is-a faint, blucifh, or greyifh-Green. 
The Flowers: ‘are. ‘numerous, large, and beauti- 
ful: they ‘are ‘altogether unlike te. common Co- 
Jumbine, from which they are derived, and have 
the Afpect of common double Flowers. They 
are compos’d of a great Number of plain oblong 
Petals, and thefe {pread themfelves out in a radi- 
ated or ftarry Form: the outer ones being largelt, 
and thofe within {maller to the Centre. 
Their Colour, when moft perfeét, is of a fine 
hieh Scarlet; but from this it varies in fome 
uy Plants into a faint yet not unpleafing Red; in 
. _ others, it runs thro’ all the Changes of Blue, 
Purple, and Flefh Colour, even to abfolute White; 
and in fome Flowers there will be a very agreeable 
Mixture of Green. | 
All thefe Colours will be -obtain’d from the 
‘Seed of one Plant, therefore they are palpably no 
more than feminal Varieties; and befide thele, 
there will be from the fame Seeds alfo oreat Va- 
Tiety of Form. 
3 
; ~ With all this Singularity of Afpect, the Plant: | : 
45, no amore than «a Creature of Aéccident, and the 
Gatdenei’s Induftry ;.a Variety of the common. 
he refers the Plant to the common Co- | 
| and from thefe rife fo many Styles ; 
ward the Top, and crown’d with upright fimple 
- This, excluding the Flowers of 
DOUBLE STARRY COLUMBINE. 
the common Structure, may be reduced to: three 
Kinds; The fingle Starry, Columbine, the double 
Starry, and the Rofe. 
The fingle Starry Kind has a i Flower, 
compos’d of a few flat Petals : the double Starry 
is that we have reprefented in the annexed 
Plate; the Petals of which are very numerous, 
yet plac’d in the Form of Rays, diftinét from one 
another ; and the Rofe Columbine is that in which 
the numerous Petals form an entire round Flower 
without thefe Divifions. 
Of all thefe Kinds, there are Red, Blue, and 
White. The Terms have been us’d indiftinctly ; 
_but though the Names only of fo many Varieties, 
they may be us’d thus determinately. - 
It would be vain for the Student to feek the 
| Clafs of the Columbine in this fmgular State of 
others, Aguilegia flore rofeo multiplici 
the Plant. We have obferv’d, that the Parts on 
which thefe Characters depend, ere commonly obli- 
terated in double Flowers; and they-are more 
than ufually confus’d and: loft in this irregular 
as well as full Flower. 
That he may know the Place of every Plant 
in the Linn an Syftem, and be able to refer all 
Varieties, thro’ their proper Species, and Genera, 
to the true Clafs, let him always, in thefe Cafes, 
refer to the ufual or natural State of the 
Flower, | 
Let him take off one from the common blue 
Columbine, from whence this Variety is rais’d, 
and he will find in it enough of Singularity. It 
has no» Cup 3" but. "tis -compos’d) of five Petals, 
| and as many Nettaria »: ey fingular and very 
—confpicuous, — 
The Petals ate Sblowe plain, and- equal i in 
as 
Size, and they are reoularly {pread open. 
The NeGaria ftand alternate with the Petals : 
~ | they are long, hollow, flender, wideft toward the 
| Mouth, and fhap’d like Horns, °° 
The Mouth opens obliquely, afcénding on 1 the | 
Outfide, and adhering to the Receptacle of the inner 
Verge. ‘The tubular Part is long and pendulous, 
and has an obtufe bent Top. | 
In ‘the Centre rife a vaft Number of fender 
Filaments, crown’d with oblong upright Buttons. 
The outer Filaments are fhorter than the inne r, and 
the Buttons are equal in Length to the Netaria. 
In-the Midit of thefe are pee five Rudiments 
of Seed-vefiels, of | an oval Form, but oblong, 
Heads. About and between thefe Rudiments are 
| plac’d ten fcaly Subftances, which defend them 
from Injuries, and feparate them from one another. 
The Seed-veffels after every Flower, are five : 
they are ftrait, cylindrick, pointed, and plac’d paral- 
lel, they are form’d of one Valve, and they burft 
inwards. Ineach are numerous, oval, hollow’d Seeds, 
fix’d to the Suture where the Seed-veffel burtts. 
The Student will not wonder that in the ruder 
Days of the Science, thofe who wrote on it were 
ftrangely perplex’d about a Flower confifting of 
| fuch fingular, various, and irregular Parts; but 
he 
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