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MONK'S-HOOD or WOLF'S-BANE. 

 Aconilum. 



Natural Order Multisiliquce. RanunculacecBf Juss: 

 a Genus of the Polyandria Trigynia Class. 



** L'Aconit, au sue malfaisant, 

 Comme s'il s'arniait pour la guerre, 

 Eleve un casque menacant." 



We could never find sufficient beauties in these 

 plants to justify their common cultivation in our 

 pleasure grounds, and v^re shall be glad to see 

 them entirely expelled from the gardens of the 

 cottagers, where they are generally found in 

 greatest abundance. In our history of the Aco- 

 nitum we shall have to relate such terrible eflfects 

 of its virulent nature as must make us rejoice 

 that it is not an indigenous plant of our soil. 



The lines of Virgil may be happily used on 

 this occasion, 



*« Our land is from the ra^e of tigers freed. 

 Nor nourishes the lion's angry seed. 

 Nor pois'nous Aconite is here produc'd. 

 Or grows unknown, or is (when known) refiis'd " 



Drydbn. 



