118 BOTANICAL EXCURSION 
cordate base. Pursh’s character is drawn up from a cultivated 
specimen. Here we again met with the Aconitum, previously? 
observed in similar situations on the Negro Mountain, and 
which being then only in bud, we took for the A. uncinaium, 
a species collected in this region by Michaux, and recently 
by Mr. Curtis and other botanists. We were greatly sur- | 
prised, therefore, to find that our plant, here just coming | 
into blossom, had cream-coloured flowers, very different / 
from those of A. Lycoctonum.* On our return to Jefferson, 
we obtained good specimens at our original locality, where it 
is very abundant. 'The weak stems, ascending at first, be- 
come prostrate when the plant is in bloom, and frequently 
attain the length of seven or eight feet. As the stem does 
not climb, and its flowers are so different from those of 
A. uncinatum, it can hardly be the plant mentioned by Pursh 
under that species, which he saw at the foot of the Peaks of 
Otter, and about the Sweet Springs in Virginia. It may be 
remarked that the ovaries of A. uncinatum are often nearly 
glabrous, and the claws of its petals entirely so; the seeds — 
are strongly plicato-rugose, with a wing-like margin on onè — — 
side. ie 
Near the summit of the mountain, we saw immense quan- 
* Aconitum reclinatum (spec. nov. $ Lycoctonum), caule elongato de- | a 
cumbente foliisque palmatifidis glabris, lobis divaricatis cuneatis apicem | 
versus incisis, racemis paniculisve divergentibus laxifloris (floribus albidis), 1 
bracteolis minimis, galea horizontali conico-cylindracea ore obliquo, labio | 
cucullorum obcordato ab ungue distante, calcare adunco, filamentis eden- | 
tulis, carpellis glabris 2-4 spermis, seminibus (immaturis) squamose | 
rugosis, 
C Hab, in sylvis opacissimis ad montes Negro Mountain et Grandfather 
dictos, alt. 4,000-5,000 pedes.) Julio-Augusto floret.—Caulis flaccidus, 
adscendens vel declinatus, denique procumbens, 3-8 pedalis, ramis 8'3- 
cilibus, seu paniculis laxiforis, divaricatis, Folia flaccida; inferior? | 
longe petiolata, (circumscriptione suborbiculari), profunde 5-7 fida; 868- — 
mentis interdum 2-3 lobatis, apice inciso-dentatis, dentibus mucronatis: 
summa subsessilia, 3-5 partita; venis et pagina quandoque superiori tent- 
"TE pubescentibus. Pedicelli sparsi (pedanculique puberuli), flore lon- 
giores, bracteolis 2-3 minimis stipati. Flores minores quam in 4. Lycoe- 
tono, albi vix flavi distincti (in siccis leviter purpurascentes); sepalis intus 
