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3. AcHYRANTHEs [Lappacca) caule erC'Sto, fpica inter- 

 rupta, floribus cxccrnc lanatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 204. 



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4. AcHYRANTHi^s {Lcinato) caule crefto, fpicis ovatis la 

 teralibus calycibus lanatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 204. Achy- 

 ranches with an ereti fialk^ mtd oval fpikes of flozver 



produced from the wings of the leaves^ which are^ covered 



with a foft down. 



The firft fort hath been long in the Engliili gardens, 

 where it hath been prelers^edmorc for tiie falze ot va- 

 riety, than for its beauty or ufe. le grows near three 

 feet high, v/ith oblong pointed leaves \ the flowers 

 come out in long fpikes from the extremity of the 

 branches, which are compofed of an empalement, v/ith 

 a ftyle and five iramina, but hath no petals, lb may 

 be ranged under the clafs of blink flowers. The plants 

 of this fort malt be raifed on a hot-bed, and when 

 they have acquired ftrengch, they may be tranfplanted 



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and their feeds ripen in September. If thefe are kept 

 in potr., and pat into a warm green-houfe in winter, 

 thev Will li-ve two or three yeai-s, where perfons are 

 inclined to keep them lb long. This fort grows na- 

 turally in the iilands of America, and alio in Inia 



and Sicily. 



The leecis of the fecond fort I received from Malabar, 



winch have for fome years flouriihed at Cheifea, and 

 annually produced ripe feeds, v/hich have never va- 

 ried from the parent plant. 



The third and fourth forts grow naturally at the Cape 

 of Good Hope, from whence I received' their feeds. 

 Thefe are all preferved in botanic gardens for the fake 

 of variety, but have no great beauty to recommend 

 them, to thofe who do not cultivate plants for the ini- 

 provement of that fcience. 



■ They may all be propagated in the fame manner as 

 the iirll, and will perteS: their feeds the fome year ^ 

 but the plants of the three lail lorcs may be preferved 

 through the v/inter. if placed in a Hove, for they are 

 too tender to be kept in a green-houfe wliere there is 

 not artificial heat. 



A C I N O S. See Thymus. 



A C I N U S, or A C I N I, by good authors is not ufed 

 for the grape ftone, but the grape itfelf, as appears 



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It is commonly ufed 



for thofe fmaii grains growing in bunches, after the 

 manner of grapes, as Liguftrurn, &c. 

 A. C N I D A, Virginia Hemp. 



This plant grows naturally in Virginia, and in fome 

 other parts of North America, but is rarely cultivated 

 in Europe, except in fome few botanic gardens, for 

 the fake of varietv. It hath male and female flowers 



growing upon different roots, fo is near of kin to tlie 



fome 

 beauty. 



Plemp, under which title it has been ranged by 

 former boianifcs. But as it is a plant of little b( 



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driatrigynia, from the flowers having many flamina, 

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The S";-ciE.s are, 



AcoNiTUiM [LycGtloniiVii) fciiis palmatis multindis vil- 



iofls. Lin. Sp. Plant. 532. Tellow Wolfsbane or Monk- 



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fljccd^ with palr/mtcd hcii'ry leaves finely divided. Aconitum 

 lycodonuui luteum. C. B. P. 183. , 



Aconitum {JUifJl'nitr.n) foliis palmatis, nervofls gla- 

 bris. Greateft yellovjJVolfsbaney with nervous^ fmcoth^ pal- 

 mated, leaves. Aconitum luteum majus ampii^ 

 amplicribufque foliis. Dod. p. 441. 



Aconitum (f-^'ariegcitum) fghis mukifidis laciniis-fe- 

 mipartitis fuperne latis. Hort. Ci:fl\ 214. Lejfer Wolfs- 

 bane with blue flowers.^ whofe under leaves are cut inio 

 many parts^ and whofe upper have broader fegments. Aco- 

 n'tum cieraleum minus, fivenapellus minor. C. B. P. 



4. Aconitum {Anthora) floribus pentagynis foliorum 



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Aconitum falutiferum 



five anthora. C. B. P. 184. 



5. Aconitum {Napellus) foliorum laciniis linea*'ibus fu- 



•^fJooody with large blue Jl 



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cxruleum, five napellus. x C. B. Pin. 183. 



6. Acokitum {Pyramidak) foliis multipartitis, fpicis flo- 

 rum longiflamis fefiilibus. "^rbe common blue Monkfiooody 

 with a hngfpikc of flowers. Aconitum pyramidale mul- 

 tifiorum. PL R. Par. 



7. Aconitum {Alpinum) .foliorum laciniis pinnatifldis 



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flowered Mcnkfloood^ or Wclfsban 

 Aconitum Ci^ruleo purpureum 



■ florc maximo, five napellus. 4 C. B. P. 183. 



S. Aconitum {Pyrenaicura) foliis multipartitis laciniis li- 

 nearibus incumbentibus fquamofis. Hort. Upfal. 152. 

 Tellow Pyrenean Monkfhood^ pr Wolfsbane^ with fine cut 

 leaves. Aconitum Pyrenaicum luteum foliorum feg- , 

 mentis fibi invicem incumbentibus. Raii Syll. 367, 



9. Aconitum [Cammarum) floribus fubpentagynis, fo- 

 liorum laciniis cuneiformibus incifis acutis. Lin. Sp. 

 Plant. 751. Monkfhood with flowers^ having commonly five' 

 ftyle s^ and the fegments of the leaves awl-fljaped. 



10. AconitujvI {Orientale) elatius, foliis palmatis flore 

 magno albo. Eaflern Monkfhood^ with a tall ft 



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flore magno albo. Tourn. Cor. 



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Th.e fixth fort is the mofl common in the Englifli 

 gardens ; this is cultivated for the beauty of its long 

 ipike of blue flowers^ which arc brought to the mar- 

 kets in London, towards the end of May, when it 



fo that thefe bcins: intermixed 





cozTUBonly flower 

 with the Guelder Rofes and other flowers of the fame 

 feafon, make an agreeable variety, when properly 

 blended, to adorn haJls and other apartments. But as 

 mofl: of the fpecies of Monkfliood are a deadly poifon, 

 not only to men but to brutes alio, they ought not 

 therefore to be admitted into places v/here children or 



and at prefent no ufe has been made of it, it is 'to j ignorant perfons frequent, Icfl: by fmelling to thefe 



flowers, they fliould draw fome of the farina ii]to 

 their nofl:rils, which may prove very hurtful to them, 

 as I can from experience affert for fa6t. We have an 

 account of a man who was poifoned in the year 1732, 



by eating fome of this plant, wliich by an unfliilful 

 perfon y/as put into a fallad uifl:ead of Celery. TJiis 

 is particularly mentioned in.th^ Tranfadions of the 

 Royal Society, N° 432. Dodona^us alfo relates a fl:ory 



little purpofe to fay more of it here. 

 A C O IN IT U M, Wolfsbane, or Monkfl-iood, \oiS.y.'^v, 

 or cJjc'/i, a dart, becaufe the Barbarians ufed to daub 

 their darts therewith ; others of ihoyi^^^ to accelerate, 



becaufe it hauens death]. 

 The Characters are, 

 "The ft 



petals^ which vary ii 

 is tubnlous^ and covers the other 

 friar's cowl-^ the two lateral j 

 ftamina and ftyle are equal : the] 



ipalemcnt^ but ccrflfts offi' 

 different fpecies -^ the galea 



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and oblong : in the bottom of the fio*^ 



vc£larii^ upon which areflJuated the ftyle s ; 



are two^ in others three^ and foyne have five : thefe are 



forked^ and ft retch cut far beyond the ftamina^ i;;hich are 



numerous and irregular: after the fewer is paft.\ the ger- 



men become oblong fecd-veffels terminated in a pointy and 



coalefcing at their bafe\ thefe have but one cell', which is 



fdled with angular rough feeds. 



This genus of plants is by Dr. Linnaeus ranged in the 



third fection of his thirteenth clafs, entitled Polyan- 





Monkfl 



was recent in his time. Some unflcilful perfons had 

 gathered the young fl^oots of the blue Monkfliood to 

 eat in a fallad, and all that cat of them were feized 

 with terrible fymptoms, and foon died. Dr. Turner 

 aifo mentions, that fome Frenchmen at Antwerp eat 

 the flioots of this plant for thofe of* Mafterwort, and 

 all of them died in tv/o days, except two players who 

 threw them up by vomit. I have known perfons who 

 by fmelling to the flowers, have been feized with 

 fwooning fiti\ and have loft dieir flght for two or three 



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