5 petals are all conn i vent : the upper one (galea) conical, 

 terminated in a long tube, nearly straight, obtuse: lateral 

 petals (ala?) roundish : lower petals slightly bearded, not 

 pendent, as in most of the species. These petals are called 

 segments of the calyx by Jlssieu and De Candolle, who 

 give the name of petals to the small coloured scales surrounding 

 the germen, which are wanting in this species, and to the two 

 singular bodies inclosed within the tube of the galea called 

 by Linnaeus Nectaria, which are supported on long pedicles 

 or claws terminated by a horn-shaped body (Cucullus of 

 Willdenow) forming at one end a sort of spur (calcar of 

 De Candolle) and expanded al the other into a border or lip 

 (labium). In our plant this part is recurved at the spur and 

 truncate, and slightly emarginate at the lip. Filaments dilated 

 and cohering at the base. Germens 3, oval. Style shorter 

 than stamens, Stigmas 3, simple. Capsules 3, recurvedly 

 divaricate. 



This variety is a native of the Carpathian Mountains and 

 first described by M. Wahlenberg who has published an 

 excellent Flora of those regions, but is considered by him as 

 only a variety of Aconitum Lycoctonum ; he observes how- 

 ever that the two continue distinct from one another, and are 

 never found intermixed. Aconitum septentrionale «. a native 

 of Norway, Russia, and Siberia, differs from our present plant 

 in being pubescent, and also apparently in the shortness and 

 recurvature of the galea or casque, which part is long and 

 nearly straight; or what curvature it has is downward, con- 

 trary to what takes place in Pallas's specimen of septen- 

 trionale, preserved in Lambert's Herbarium. 



A hardy perennial. Flowers in June, July, and August. 

 Communicated by Messrs. Whitley, Brame, and Milne, of 

 the Fulham nursery, who raised it from seeds collected in the 

 Carpathian Mountains. 



