712 459. Consolida. 85. RANUNCULAC. Pl.ex.thaL 
Sandy fields; annual; June and July. 
Stem herbaceous, bald or downy; stem branched ; flowers 
of various colours. — -Seeds acrid. 
IV. 460. AQUILEGIA. Tragus. Columbine . 
Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous, sepales coloured, petal-like ; 
petals 5, gaping above, 2-lipped ; outer lip large, flat ; inner 
very small; produced behind into spurs exserted between 
the sepales; stamens many, in 5 to 10 series; interior fila- 
ments membranaceous, oblong, without anthers; ovaries 5; 
camares 5, upright, many-seeded. — Root perennial ; stem 
herbaceous, upright ; lower leaves longly petioled ; petioles 
S~cut, biternate; lobes 3-fid, toothed, blunt; upper leaves 
lobed, lobes linear; flowers terminal, variously coloured. 
Aquilegia vulgaris . Common columbine . 
Spurs bent inwards ; capsules villous ; stem rather bald, 
leafy, many-flowered; leaves nearly bald; styles not longer 
than the stamens. 
Aquilegia flore simplici, Raii Syn. 273. 
Aquilegia caerulea, and A. rubra, Ger. em. 1093, I, and 2. 
Aquilegia vulgaris simplex, Park. 1367. 
Aquilegia vulgaris, Lin . S. P.752 . 
Fields and copses; perennial; July. 
Herb mostly bald, rarely downy ; leaf-lobes mostly cut ; 
flowers panicled, drooping, pale. 
V. 461. HELLEBORUS. Dioscorides. Hellebore . 
Calyx persisting, 5-sepaled ; sepales large, roundish, 
obtuse, mostly green; petals 8 or 10, very short, tubular; 
below slender, nectariferous ; stamens 30 to 60 ; ovaries 3 
to 10; stigmata terminal, orbicular; camares coriaceous; 
seeds in 2 rows, elliptic, umbilicated.-— Plants herbaceous, 
perennial, hard, coriaceous, bald, sometimes slightly downy 
under the leaves ; root-leaves petioled, palmately or pedatelv 
cut ; lobes oblong, toothed : stem-leaves various, oftenest 0. 
a. Stem Jew-flowered , mostly forked ; floral leaves sessile , cut. 
1 . Helleborus viridis. Green hellebore . 
Root-leaves quite bald, pedately cut; stem-leaves nearly 
sessile, palmately parted ; peduncles often 2-cut ; sepales 
roundish, ovate, green. 
