the blue or violet colour more or less obtains. As the name of 
ccerulea has, however, the right of priority, we have thought it 
inadvisable to substitute Sir W. J. Hooker’s far more judicious 
designation of macranflia , abandoned, as it appears to be, by 
botanists. 
“The Aquilegia ccerulea is a native of elevated regions of the 
Eocky Mountains, in about lat. 40°, having been originally 
discovered by Hr. James, subsequently by other explorers. By 
the collector Burke it was found just twenty years since near 
Medicine Eiver, growing in rich loamy soil in great abundance, 
and was described by him as being in his opinion 4 not only the 
Queen of Columbines, but the most beautiful of all herbaceous 
plants.’ 
44 Though this eulogium may now appear somewhat exagge¬ 
rated, the award of two first-class certificates at the exhibitions 
of the past spring will doubtless be received as evidence that it 
was in a great degree merited. The plants in question had 
been raised by the writer from seeds collected in 1862, by Dr. 
Parry, in the district where the species was first discovered by 
Dr. James.”—W. T. 
We have only to add that Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, to whom 
we are indebted for the above, remarks that the plant attains, 
in good loamy soil, a height of twelve to eighteen inches, yield¬ 
ing its flowers in April and May, and, like the other species, it 
is readily increased by seed, or division of the roots, when these 
have become sufficiently strong. 
Though introduced at the date just mentioned to the Boyal 
Gardens, Kew, it does not appear to have come into general 
cultivation. 
