Plate 17 . 
DOUBLE CABNATION-STEIPED COLUMBINE. 
Aquilegia vulgaris , var. caryophylloides. 
This very pretty hardy perenniaPWas exhibited by Messrs. Car¬ 
ter and Co., of Holborn, at a meeting of the Floral Committee of 
the Horticultural Society of London, in the month of June last, 
and was on that occasion rewarded by a certificate of commen¬ 
dation, as a distinct and handsome variety of the well-known 
Columbine. Messrs. Carter and Co. state that it was selected 
five or six years since, by one of their seed-growers, from a bed 
of mixed varieties, and has since that time been carefully grown 
and increased. They also state that it is found to come true 
from seeds, and that the seeds are quite distinct in appearance 
from those of the common forms of Columbine, being of a light 
green instead of black, as is usually the case. 
It is, like its parent, a hardy herbaceous perennial, well adapted 
for flower-borders. The stems grow about three feet high, and are 
somewhat hairy, producing numerous erect flowering branches. 
The leaves are twice ternate, that is, twice divided by three, the 
leaflets being roundish three-lobed, and coarsely crenated. The 
flowers, which are large and showy, are multiple or full double, 
the petals being placed hose-in-hose fashion about three deep. 
The five sepals are ovate, clawed, and reflexed, coloured and 
striped like the rest of the flower. The spur-like petals are 
ten, double the normal number, each of them being again mul¬ 
tiplied by the development of from two to four, usually three, 
hose-in-hose like, the one within the other, just projecting at the 
Plate 17.—Aquilegia vulgaris, var. caryophtlloides : habit and foliage 
as in the species ; flowers large, double, with hose-in-hose petals, white, striped 
with dull crimson and purplish-red. 
Aquilegia vulgaris, var. caryophtlloides, Moore, in Proceedings of 
Horticultural Society , i. 229. 
