. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. KANUNCULACEiB 49 a many-seeded follicle. Stout glabrous perennials with large round to heart-shaped leaves. C. palflstris, L. Stem hollow, furrowed, low; leaves round or kidney-shaped, orenate^ dentate or entire, the upper sessile or short-petioled; flowers bright yellowj' Wet places, spring, 8. AQUILEGIA. Columbine. Sepals 5, petal-like; petals 5, longer than the sepals, produced backward into large hollow spurs; pistils 5, with slender styles; pod a many-seeded follicle. Perennial herbs with decom
. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. KANUNCULACEiB 49 a many-seeded follicle. Stout glabrous perennials with large round to heart-shaped leaves. C. palflstris, L. Stem hollow, furrowed, low; leaves round or kidney-shaped, orenate^ dentate or entire, the upper sessile or short-petioled; flowers bright yellowj' Wet places, spring, 8. AQUILEGIA. Columbine. Sepals 5, petal-like; petals 5, longer than the sepals, produced backward into large hollow spurs; pistils 5, with slender styles; pod a many-seeded follicle. Perennial herbs with decompound leaves and large showy flowers. 1. A. canadensis, L. Wild CoLukBiNE. Stem short, erect, 1-3 ft. high; flowers large, scarlet lined with yellow, nodding; stamens and Fig. 39. — Aquilegia styles longer than the sepals. Wooded regions, canadensis. 2. A. brevfstyla. Hook. Small-floweked Colombine. Stem slender, erect, with few leaves; flowers small, blue, the spurs short and slightly incurved, making the flowers no longer than they are broad. Cool woods, Qu'Appelle and Sask. valleys, Southern and Central Alta. 3. A. flavSscens, Wats. Yellow Columbine. Slender, 1-2 ft. high, branching; flower yellow or yellowish white, the sepals sometimes tinged with scarlet without. Foothills of Rooky Mts. and eastward. 9. DELPHINIUM. Larkspur. Sepals 5, petal-like, irregular, the upper one prolonged with a spur; petals 4, irregular, the upper pair prolonged into spurs which are contained in the spur of the calyx, the lower pau* with short claws; flowers in terminal racemes, showy; fruit a many-seeded pod. 1. D. scopuldrum. Gray. Rocky Mountain Laekspue. Stem 1-6 ft. high, glabrous at least below; leaves S-7-parted, the divisions of the lower wedge-shaped, those of the upper linear; only the lowest petioles spreading at the base; flowers blue or rarely white. Calgary to Rocky Mts. and northward. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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