Aquilegia canadensis L.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  New Jersey

• County/Municipio

  Monmouth Co.

• Locality

  Sea Bright

• Coordinates

  40.3728, -73.9735

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  3052

• Georeferencing Method

  GEOLocate Web Application. Used GEOLocate Web Application to georeference precise locality (high precision). Georeferenced to Sea Bright center, adjusted uncertainty radius (resized to polygon).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Aquilegia Canadensis, L., var. FLAVIFLORA, n. var. (A. flavi-
flora, Tènney; Âmer. Nat, i., 389). On the 15 th of May, 1866,
Prof ^æri’biiiÉi Tenney, of Vassar Collège, found a yellow-flow-
ered Gol'umbine on the high ground west of the Huc^n, and
opposite the city of Poughkeepsie, which he described 'fe the
Érstvolurne' of the American Naturalist as Aquilegia flavij^r'a).
On May 17th of the succeeding year he collected the sàmé vari-
ety near the same place, and proposed to try to raise the plant
from the seed: Of hit farther observations I find no record.
On May 24, 188^ during a Club Field Excursion at Sea-
bright, Monmouth County, New Jersey, the plant was found in
.considerable abundance on the south bank of the Navesink
River, along the top of a bluff some twenty feet above the water
level. It grew there with the ordinary red-floweréd, typical form,
with which its showy flowers formed à marked and beautiful con-
trast, both being remarkably luxuriant. Associated with them
was Cerastium arvensey L., and near by grew Smilacina stellata,
Desf., neither of which had been noted so far south along the
coast I removed a plant of the yellow Aquilegia to a garden
where it has since bloomed every year, mainlining its character,
I have not been able to detect any other differences between it
and the type except that t^e whole plant isibf a light yellowish
green insteaé.of tfie usual red&^purple hu| of the young plants
of the ordinary form. ?
FLOKA OF NEW JERSEY.
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LEOIT.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
N. L. Britton.
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