AQUILE'GIA BRAC'HYCERAS. 
SHORT-SPURRED COLUMBINE. 
Class. Order 
POLYANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACE®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. Europe. 
9 inches. 
May. 
Perennial. 
in 1838. 
No. 755. 
The name Aquilegia is founded on the Latin 
word aquila, an eagle; and Columbine, from col- 
umba, a dove. These terms have not been inaptly 
suggested from the shape of the blossoms. If a 
flower of Columbine be held up in an inverted posi- 
tion, it would not require an extravagant imagina- 
tion to discover the representation of a cluster of 
little birds, stretching their necks and spreading 
their wings, like young ones in a nest, to be fed. 
The position of the flowers in our plate of Aquil- 
egia Canadensis, No. 326, will exhibit this; each 
bird being formed of one petal and two sepals. 
Aquilegia brachyceras is a newly-introduced spe- 
cies, named by Fischer and Meyer, in their seed 
catalogue of the Imperial Botanic Garden, at St. 
Petersburgh. It was raised from Russian seeds, 
in 1838, in the Birmingham Garden, and, probably, 
is not in any other British collection. It is of low 
growth, and has proved to be quite hardy ; it will, 
therefore, be a desirable addition to our borders. 
It may be raised from seeds, or increased by divi- 
sion of its roots, and will flower in any common 
garden mould. 
