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AQUILEGIA atro-purpurea. 
Purplesflowered . Columbine. 
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- POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. | 
Nat. ord. Ranuncuracex. Trib. IV. Hellebores. 
AQUILEGIA L.—Calyzx 5-sepalus deciduus colorato-petaloideus. Pe- 
tala 5, superné hiantia bilabiata, labio exteriore magno plano, interiore 
minimo, deorsum producta in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala 
exserta. Stamina plurima in phalanges 5-10 disposita, interiora abortiva, 
antheris nullis, filamentis dilatatis membranaceis oblongis. Ovaria 5. 
Capsule totidem erecte, polysperme stylis acuminate. Herbee perennes 
erecta ; tadices fibrose ; folia radicalia aut inferiora longe petiolata, petiolo 
trifido biternatim secto, segmentis trifidis dentatis sepiis obtusis ; superiora 
in lobos lineares partita aut secta; flores terminales cerulei, albi, roset aut 
purpuret, rarissime sordide flavescentes. Decand. regn. vig. syst. 1.333. 
A. atro-purpurea ; calcaribus rectis limbo sequalibus, stylis staminibusque 
sepala re eh sepalis longitudine petalorum. Dec. 7. c. 1.339, 
prodr. 1. 51. : 
A, viridiflora ; 8, nectariis coerulescentibus. Willd. sp. pl. 2.1247. 
A. atro-purpurea ; nectariis rectis, apice incrassato subinflexis, petalis longi- 
tudine nectarii, stylis staminibusque corollam sequantibus. Willd. enum. 
1.577. Link. enum. 2.85. 
8. Dahurica; stylis exsertis, = 
A. Daourica. Dec. syst. 1.338. Delessert’s Icones Selecta, 1, t. 49. 
A. atro-purpurea; 8, Dahurica, et y, Fischeriana. Decand. prodr. 1. 51. 
Herba perennis, 1-1} pedalis. Folia erecta, longé petiolata, scapo pauld 
breviora, petiolo bis trifido, foliolis cuneatis trilobis 2-3-dentatis, supra 
glabris, subtis pilosiusculis. Scapus erectus, foliosus, simplex v. 2-3-par- 
titus. Flores campanulati, nutuntes, fusco-purpurei. Sepala oblonga, 
obtusa, subvirescentia, petalorum truncatorum longitudine. Calcaria recta, | 
apice incrassata subinflexa, petalis paulo breviora. Styli exserti. 
A pretty, little, neat, hardy herbaceous plant, native of 
Siberia. It flowers in the open border, in any common 
light soil, from April till June. Our drawing was made in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, where 
it had been raised from Siberian seeds communicated by 
Dr. Fischer, 
