ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 5 
6. Acon. album. White Wolfsbane. Native of the Levant. 
Cultivated in England in 1789. Sometimes upwards of six feet 
high. Characterised by its tall stem, palmate leaves, and white 
flower. Poisonous. 
7. Acon. cammarum. The paniculatum of the London Phar- 
macopeia. Purple Monkshood. Flowers of a pale blue. A 
much longer helmet and shorter raceme than Acon. napellus. 
Stem higher. Found wild in Switzerland, Austria, Styria, 
and Piedmont. First cultivated in England in 1748. Poisonous, 
but feeble compared to the napellus. A variety, with white 
and variegated flowers. 
8. Acon. uncinatum. American Monkshood. Native of Penn- 
sylvania. Leaves similar to the napellus; flowers resembling the 
cammarum. Cultivated in England in 1770. Highly poisonous. 
9. Acon. ferox. Native of India. Highly poisonous. 
10. Acon. neomontanum. 11. Acon. volubile. 12. Acon. sep- 
tentrionale. 13. Acon. tauricum. 14. <Acon. cernuum. All 
poisonous. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DistripuTion.—France, Sweden, Switzer- 
land, Austria, Carniola, and other parts of Europe. One species 
Asiatic, one American, one British; although by some it is 
considered a doubtful native. 
Locariries.—In the mountainous districts of Carniola, 
Sweden, etc. In England: Watery places, by the side of 
streams. First discovered in a wild state by the Rev. Edward 
Whitehead, of Christchurch College, Oxford, in 1819. Devon- 
shire: In some profusion on the margin of a limpid stream below 
Ogwell Mill; F. R., and Dr. Withering, 1827. Herefordshire: 
In a truly wild state by the side of the river Teme, and in great 
abundance on the banks of a brook running into that river; 
E. W., of Christchurch College, Oxon, 1819. Banks of a brook 
near Little Hereford; Dr. Lloyd. Somersetshire: In watery 
ground, on both sides of a brook at Ford, near Wiveliscombe 
and Milverton, where it grows in great abundance, and is col- 
lected for medicinal purposes. — 
