Tas. 7180. 
ACONITUM Fiscnert. 
Native of North-East Asia and Japan, and N. America. 
Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACEZ.—Tribe HELLEBORER. 
Genus Aconttum, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 9.) 
Aconitum Fischeri; erectum, robustum, glabrum v. superne glandnloso-pu- 
-bescens, foliis caulinis petiolatis 3-partitis, segmentis cuneatis trifidis 
inciso-lobatis, racemo stricto erecto multifloro, bracteis inferioribus — 
foliaceis 3-fidis, superioribus parvis oblongis integerrimis, pedicellis erectis 
medio 2-bracteolatis, floribus magnis puberulis pallide coeruleis, sepalis 
anticis oblique oblongis v. lineari-oblongis obtusis, lateralibus orbiculatis 
pilosis, postico in galeam altiorem quam latam compressam rostratam 
producto, filamentis glabris late alatis, petalis superioribus ungue elato, 
caleare antice dilatato dentato postice revoluto, folliculis erectis pubes- 
centibus reticvlatim nervosis. 
A. Fischeri, Reichb. Monogr: Gen. Aconit. t. xxii.; Franchet in Mem. Soc, 
Nat. Cherb. vol. xxiv. p. 198 (eacl. syn. Dene.) ; Franch. & Savat, Enuin, 
Plant. Jap. vol. i. p. 12; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xxiii. p. 20; 
Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p.12. : 
A. sinense, Sieb. & Zuce. Fam. Nat. Pl. Jap. No. 335 (non A. chinense, Bot. 
Mag. t. 3852). : : : 
A. autumnale, Lindl. in Journ. Hort, Soc. vol. ii. p.77, and in Pact. Fl. 
: Gard. vol. i. p. 187 with fig. 
A. arcuatum, Maxim. Fl. Amur. p. 27. “ 
A. Carmichaelii, Debeaux I'l. Tientsin, Addend. p. 61. 
A. nasutum, Fisch. mss. ex Sprengel Syst. Veg. vol. ii. p. 621, excl. syn. ; Hook. 
Flor. Bor. Am. volsi. p. 26; Torr. & Gr. Flor, N. Amer. vol. iv. p. 54; 
Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 58. 
A. Labarskyi, Reichb. /. c. t. 20 ( fid. Regel). : 
A. maximum, DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 380; Prodr, vol. i. p. 61 (non Pall. Herb., nee 
Reichb., ex Regel). 
A. columbianum, Nutt. ex Torr. & Gr. Flor. N. Am. 1.¢. 5 Coulter Man. Bot. 
Rocky Mts. Reg. p. 11. : : 
A. noveboracense, A. Gr. Bot. N. U. States, Ed. vi. p. 47. 
A. napellus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 251 (non Linn.). 
Aconitum sp., Hemsl. in Journ Bot. vol. xiv. (1876), p. 206. 
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The reduction of the species and varieties of Aconitum 
to system is a task awaiting the labour, and it will be 
no slight one, of a very judicious botanist. Upwards of 
three hundred specific names have been advanced for 
probably not more than thirty species. A great number 
of these have already been reduced to synonyms, and ag 5 
many more remain to be relegated to the same category. 
The genus is a very widely distributed o th 
Atlantic to the Pacific, which it crosses to N. America, 
where one species is found common to both the Hastern 
and Western States. In latitude it ranges from the Aretic 
Aveust Ist, 1890. 
ne, from the 
