bliieisli;, much shorter than the lamina, the extremity blunt, and more 
or less curved, but usually much less hooked than in Acjuilegia vulga¬ 
ris. Sta3IENS shorter than the petals. Capsules pubescent, six to 
ten in number, very seldom reduced to five. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The Columbines are 
all inhabitants of the temperate or even the cold regions of the 
Northern hemisphere in the new world as well as in the old. The 
greater number of species are found in central Asia. They usually 
prefer light woods in mountainous countries, although some of the 
more alpine species are also found in the crevices of elevated rocks. 
The present species, very common in the alpine and subalpine regions of 
the Altai Chain, there replaces our European Aquilegia Alpina, which 
it closely resembles, and of which it may possibly be a mere variety. 
It has, however, been distinguished by the shortness of the spurs of the 
petals, and by the number of ovaries, which are seldom if ever more 
than five, in the European species, and very rarely so few as five in the 
Siberian one. It is also a taller growing and handsomer plant, with 
larger flowers, and the petals are more frequently, though not con¬ 
stantly, white. None of these characters appear indeed to be abso¬ 
lute in all cases, but are nearly as good as those which serve to distin¬ 
guish many other species of this most natural genus. G. B. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. We were first 
favoured with a specimen of this fine plant by Mr. MAntosh, from 
the gardens of Claremont; and being admired, it was drawn and 
engraved. Subsequently, splendid specimens of the same were 
obligingly sent to us by Norman M‘Leod, Esq., of Dalvey, such as 
we were not prepared to see, and of which we confess our plate conveys 
but an imperfect idea. AVe regret its execution from the plant of our 
own growth, Mr. M‘Leod’s flowers being four inches across. This 
gentleman raises his plants from seed sown in autumn. When eighteen 
months old, they are removed from the seed bed to one of sandy 
loam and leaf-mould, and planted a foot apart. Here they assume a 
splendour in May and June which could not have been anticipated. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Aquilegia, said to be derived from aqiiila an eagle, the spurs of the petals hav¬ 
ing been compared to the claws of that bird. Glandulosa, in allusion to 
the glaudular hairs with which the stems are covered. 
Svnonymes. 
Aquilegia glandulosa. Fischer, in De Candolle’s Prodromus, v. ], p. 50. 
Ledebour, Flora Altaica, v. 2 , p. 297. 
