blue purple, glossy on the inside, tipped with pale yellowish
green, every alternate one less than the other. Petals 5,
lengthened down into a long spur at the base, which is involute,
and terminated in a glossy knob at the end: spur
hairy, of the same colour as the sepals : limb 2-lipped, the
inner lip almost obsolete, terminated in a sort of hollow callosity,
outer lip erect, contracted and hollow at the base
where it is of a blue purple, spreading upwards so as to be
ot a spathulate form : of a bright straw-colour, thinly hairy
on the outside. Stamens numerous, surrounding the carpel-
las, unequal in length : Jilaments smooth, connected in sets
at the base : inner ones membranaceous, flat, surrounding
the carpella, linear, two-ribbed outside, lacerate at the ends •
anthers 2-lobed, opening at the side, for the exclusion of th¿
po en, and united by their base to the filaments: pollen
yellow. Carpellas 5, smooth at the back, but clothed with
long hairs in front, smooth. a small blunt
termination.
For this beaiUiful and splendid hybrid production o f Aquileqia, we are
oblig^ed to M is s Gamier, of Wickham, Hants, in whose collection it was
raised irom se ed s; the seeds were produced from A . sibirica, figured at
1, ° } f series o f our Flower Garden ; it was impregnated with the
pollen o f A . vulgaris; it is quite hardy, succeeds well in the open borders
ot the Flower Garden, and nearly equals A . sibirica in beauty ; our specimen
of A . sibirica was a monster, as we supposed, when publishina- it
we «aviiig- been obliged by a large plant sent to us by the favour and kindness
ot Miss Gamier.
I'or the meaning o f Aquilegia, see supra, folio 40.
‘^if'^ing was made from a fine specimen received from Messrs.
Whitley, Brames, and Milne, two years ago; but as the flowers at that
time had all dropt their bractes, we were glad to see it in flower again, about
a tortnight since, against a wall in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, at
Gliiswick, by the side of its beautiful congener, W . chinensis. Mr Muiiro
was kind enough to give us a fine specimen of it, as soon as we asked him-
and we have now free admittance to the Horticultural Society’s Garden
and leave to figure what plants we like, which we were denied at the timé
that Mr. Sabine was Secretary.
t a I The 5 barren btanieiis con n e c ted . 5. The 5 Carpella, terminated
by the long slender b tyles and minute Stigmas.