Aquilegia
According to Bentham and Hooker, the numerous species may be reduced to about five or six; they are distributed over the North temperate zone, the genus being represented in Britain by A. vulgaris. To the species and varieties described on pp. 100-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added:
A. flabellata (fan-shaped). fl. white, slightly tinted with violet-rose. A very early-flowering, compact-habited, dwarf, garden form. (R. H. 1887, p. 548.) A. olympica flore-pleno (double-flowered). fl. blue, with a white centre, very large. 1888.
A. Skinneri (Skinner's). fl. drooping; petals with the limb yellowish-green and rounded, prolonged at base into a very long, tubular, lively red spur. Summer and autumn. l. mostly radical, glaucous, on long petioles, biternate; leaflets petiolulate and cordate, deeply three-lobed. Stem 2ft. to 3ft. high, panicled above. Guatemala. (B. M. 3919.) The variety flore-pleno (R. G. 1885, p. 57) has double flowers.