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14 POLYANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA 
parted?—Was it not of more importance to have given a 
~ figure of this very interesting plant thatt of Monarda Kal- 
~ ages or ee sined villosus? 
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ORDER IIl.—DI-PENTAGYNIA. (2 to 5 styles.) 
‘$71. DELPHINIUM. L. (Larkspur.) 
~Calix none. Petals 5.— Lepanthium (necta- 
ry) bifid, cornutely a —— aprgies 
Sor 1. 
x,t Sartecschs, lower scabar wae or " folineias upper 
ones often undivided; flowers closely spiked or Paniculate, : 
blue, violaceous or yellowish. 
‘Spectres. 1. D.tricorne. 2. azureum. 3.exaltatum. 4. eon- 
| 3olide. Naturalized. 5. *virescens. Perennial, pubescent; 
lepanthium 4-leaved, shorter than the 5 calicine petals, 
interior laminz densely bearded; leaves 3-parted, segments 
linear, subtrifid, lower ones divaricate. Has. On the 
plains of the Missouri. Oxs. Stem simple about 8 to 12 
inches, pubescent; leaves upon lung petioles, partly digi- 
tate or 5-parted, 10 to 15 lines wide; spike few-flowered, 
flowers greenish white, petaloid calix, 5-leaved, leaves 
*. eblen eaenmdovene tn the Sqee eer STUER Pe- 
the lepanthium 4; the 2 internal ones irregularly 
concave, — the 2 lateral larger, flat, and ulate, 
bearded, claw out a short spur at the | cap- 
sules 3. Flowering in June. 
A genus almost equally divided betwixt Siberia and the 
south of Europe. 
572. ACONITUM. L. (Wolf’s-bane.) | 
Calix none. Petals 5, the uppermost one 
arched: Lepanthia 2, pedanculate, recurved. 
Siliques 3 or 5. 
_. Leaves te or palmate; flowers ort em 
Pats spiked, terminal rminal, violaceous or yellowish. _ 
2 with many other species of this genus. The flow 
ae seta resemble those of the common "he Bowers 
A. Napeilus. 
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