10. Aconitum Le Monkshood,. 
Erect perennial herbs, Leaves alternate, palnately lobed. Flowers 
very showy, in terminal, bracted racemes, Sepals 5, petal-like, the 
upver forming an arching hood, fetals si aed 2, concealed within the 
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hood, each narrowed to a slender claw terminatimg in a nectary, the three 
lower ones wanting or rudimentary. Stamens numerous. Pistils 5-5, forming 
as many follicles in fruit. 
1. Ae columbianuna lutte. Rootstocks small and tuberous; stems comionly 
1-1,5 m, tall, simple to the inflorescence, crisp-puberulent m below, 
glandular-hirsute above; leaves kidney-shaped or rotund in outline, 6-12 
cm, broad, palmately 5-7-lobed nearly to the base, the lobes wedge-shaped, 
jncised and toothed near the apex, softly pubescent, eenetiadiy besnoth 
flowers deep blue, racemes 15-40 cm, long, subtended by subfoliar or linear 
bracts; pedicels usually curving upwards, 2-5 cm, long, glandular; ®#e upper 
sepal as long as 28 ma,, strongly arched and hooded, the iy ls ata 
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into a beak resembling a visor, Row nearly yenbrmgssmew—10—11 Long, che 
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lateral sepals obovate, 20 mm, long, the lower oblong-lanceolate, 16-17 mm, 
long, unequal; petals conforming to the shape of the hood and concealed within 
it, the claws 10-12 ma, long; stamens 5 mm, long; pistils commonly 4; 
follicles distinct, 15-18 mm, long; sceds 3-5.5 mn, long, comma-shaned, 
S3eangled, margined along 1 angle, otherwise as though hung with rufflese 
Soumion throughout our region in moist woods, subalpine meadows and 
rich bottoms, 2500-7000 rt.  white-flowered forma \pohvekencrm— Crytek tet 
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