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AQUILEGIA GLANDULOSA. 



(Glcmdular-haired Aquilegia, or Colomiine.) 

 LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA. RANUNCULACE^E. — (JwSS.) 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Aquilegia (Linn.) Calyx 5-sepalus deciduus colorato-petaloideus ; petala 5 superne hiantia 

 bilabiata, labio exteriore magno piano, interiore minimo, deorsum producta in calcaria totidem 

 cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5. Capsules totidem, erects polyspermy stylis 

 acuminatse. — Be Cand. Syst. vol. 1. p. 333. Prod. p. 50. 



Calyx 5 sepaled deciduous, coloured petal-like. Petals 5, gaping upwards, two-lipped, 

 exterior one large and flat, interior one very small, each elongated downwards into as many 

 hollow spurs, callous at the apex, projecting between the sepals. Ovaries 5. Capsules the same 

 number, erect, many-seeded, acuminate by the styles. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



A. glandulosa; calcaribus incurvis, petalorum limbo duplo brevioribus ; herbse parte superiore 

 carpellisque villosa-glandulosis. — De Cand. 1. c. 



Spurs bent inwards half the length of the petals ; the upper part of the plant and the seed 

 vessels covered with glandular hairs. 



Aquilegia glandulosa. — Fish. ined. Link. enum. 2. p. 84. De Cand. Prod. vol. 1. p. 50. ' 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. vol. 2. p. 630. Ledebour Flora Altaica, vol. 2. p. 297. Aquilegia Alpina. — 

 Pall. It. vol. 2. p. 568. 3. p. 317. A. grandiflora. — Sievers in Pallas. N. Nord. Beytr. vol. 7- 

 p. 350. 



Descr. — Stem erect, about two feet high, covered with soft hairs. Radical leaves glaucous, 

 sheathing at the base, twice or thrice temate, leaflets roundish, cuneate or truncate at the 

 base ; trifid divisions notched ; stem leaves tripartite, linear or oblong entire. Flowers one, two, 

 or three, (in the cultivated plant sometimes four or five) on elongated peduncles. Sepals five, 

 ovate, or oblong, acute, or obtuse, of a pleasing blue colour. Petals five, the lower part blue, 

 elongating into a spur ; lamina, or upper part, white, or yellowish white. Stamens equal in 

 length to the ovaria. Carpels from six to ten, hairy, glandular. 



The genus Aquilegia, according to Professor Ledebour, in the Flora Altaica, 

 approaches near to the genus Isopyrum, but differs principally in having its nectary 

 joined to the side of the receptacle ; Isopyrum having its nectary at the base. 

 Other authors state the genus to be most allied to aconitum, but differing in 



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