Bee ie tofmanae | ‘ 
ACONITUM UncINATUM. Hoox-FLOWERED 
| Wo .r’s-BANE- = 
JES SO SHEER: 
. Clafs and Order. | : 
PoLyYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cal.o. Petala 5, fapremo fornicato. Neéaria 2, pedun- 
culata, recurva. Silique 3. f. 5. Eg 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. — 
ACONITUM uncinatum ; floribus fubpentagynis, foliis mul- _ 
tilobis, corollarum galea longius extenfa. Sy/. 
Veg. 504. Willd. Sp. Pl.2. 1238. Hort. Kew. 
en ae 2. p. 246. Mart. Mill. Didt. n. 9. 
ACONITUM uncinatum ; caule flexuofo: fotiis 3—5-partito- 
palmatis ; lobis rhomboideo-lanceolatis : og 
oon - fulis ternis. Michaux Fl. Bor. Am. 1. p. 315? — 
‘7 eeneeees 
The leaves of this fpecies, a native of North-America, are 
els deeply divided than in any other with which we are ac- 
- quainted; a chara@ter that diftinguifhes it at firft fight. The 
flowers refemble thofe of A. Cammarum, but the point of the 
helmet-fhaped petal turns inwards, inftead of being refleétedy — 
as It ufually is in the laft mentioned fpecies; the fide-petals 
are kidney-(haped and appear ciliated, when viewed through a 
lens; the lower petals are unequal. This plant has been fup- 
Pofed to be the Aconitum japonicum of Tuunsere, which 
that Botanift defcribes as having flowers very fimilar to A. 
Lycofonum, and muft be therefore altogether different. The — 
Japan fpecies, we fufpe&t, has never been feen in this country, 
though its name occurs in fome of our catalogues, 
_Itis more from the comparifon of our plant with the fpe- 
cimen in the Bankfian Herbarium, than from its exaét agree- 
