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POPULAR FLORA. 



7. AzuKE L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- 

 blue or white; pods erect. JJ. aziireum. 



Aconite, (ilonkshood, Wolfsbane.) Aconittnn. 

 Sepals 5, petal-like, dissimilar, tlie upper one largest and forming a hood or helmet. Petals only 2, and 

 those are small and curiously shaped bodies, with a curved or hammer-shaped little blade on a long 

 claw, standing under the hood. Pods as in Larkspur. — Flowers in racemes or panicles, showy, blue, 

 or purple, varying to white. Herbage and roots, poisonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 



1. Garden Aconite. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into 



linear lobes; flowers crowded. A. NapcUus. 



2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb ; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate; flowers scattered, 



in summer. W. A. uncinatuiiu 



Four pptnls of L.TrUspur No. 1, 

 uaiieU iiUo uiic body. 



8-)7. Finwcr, &c. ofWiM Colnmliine. 

 JJ|8. A pt-t;il. V:-19. TIil- 5 \)o.Xi opca- 



251. Flowprof I.-.uksp.jrNi.G. CW. Il5 



Sepals uii J pci.iU displayed. 



234. Flower of Acaniie. Cjj Its parts di*. 

 )htjeil ; .<t, (lit; SL-p.ils ; ;>, tlie puiulj; 

 «<, sl.tmens an J pUliU u:i lli<; nLiwci-'>ia!k. 



