. Flowers of the field. Botany. RANUNCULACE/E^ five petals terminated in an incurved horu-like spur. It derives its name, Columbine, from the fancied resemblance of its flowers. A:)rlL^r,IA \I'\,gArIs { C oln ml^! Hi'). to a nest of doves, columha being Latin for a dove.—Woods and heaths.—Y\. May—July. Perennial. *i2. DriLPHfNiUM (I^arkspur).—Erect herbs; leaves divided; flowers in racemes, monosymmetric ; sepals 5, petaloid, deciduous, the posterior one with a long spur ; petals 2 — 4, the two posterior ones spurred and enclosed within the spur of the calyx ; frmt of I—5 follicles. (Name from
. Flowers of the field. Botany. RANUNCULACE/E^ five petals terminated in an incurved horu-like spur. It derives its name, Columbine, from the fancied resemblance of its flowers. A:)rlL^r,IA \I'\,gArIs { C oln ml^! Hi'). to a nest of doves, columha being Latin for a dove.—Woods and heaths.—Y\. May—July. Perennial. *i2. DriLPHfNiUM (I^arkspur).—Erect herbs; leaves divided; flowers in racemes, monosymmetric ; sepals 5, petaloid, deciduous, the posterior one with a long spur ; petals 2 — 4, the two posterior ones spurred and enclosed within the spur of the calyx ; frmt of I—5 follicles. (Name from the Greek iltpphis, a dolphin, from a fancied resemblance in the form (if the flower.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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