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AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS.
AMERICAN COLUMBINE.
Polyandria Di-pentagynia, Linn. Ranunculacese, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix round. Petals 5. Lepanthia 5, corniculate, situated between the petals. Cap-
sules 5, distinct.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Nectaries erect, stamens exserted. Willd.
P l a n t from fourteen to eighteen inches high. Root perennial,
fibrous. Stems numerous, dichotomous, greenish below, purple towards
the peduncles; often very slender in the crevices of rocks,
but in favourable situations as thick as represented in the figure.
Radical or lower leaves biternate, and divided irregularly; the extreme
lobes or segments obtuse, the upper leaves simply ternate,
toothed, and sometimes entire. Corollas greenish-yellow, with occasionally
a little dull-red down the central line. Nectaries long,
