Nat. Ord. Rantjnculace2e. 
Aquilegia Canadensis. 
“ The graceful columbine all blushing red, 
Bends to the earth her crown 
Of honey-laden bells.” 
r [S graceful flower enlivens us all through the months of 
May and June by its brilliant blossoms of deep red and 
golden yellow. 
In general outline the Wild Columbine resembles its 
cultivated sisters of the garden, but is more light and airy from its 
nodding habit. The plant throws up many tall slender stalks from 
its centre, furnished with leafy bracts, from which spring other light 
stems terminated by little pedicels, each bearing a large drooping 
flower and bud which open in succession. 
The flower consists of five red sepals and five red petals; the 
latter are hollowed trumpet-like at the mouth, ascending • they form 
narrow tubes, which are terminated by little round knobs filled with 
honey. The delicate thready pedicels on which the blossom hangs 
cause it to droop down and thus throw up the honey bearing tubes 
of the petals; the little balls forming a pretty sort of floral coronet 
at the junction with the stalk. 
