10 RANUNCULACEJ. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
ovuled. Style subulate. Follicles sessile, short-pointed. Seeds in two rows, 
horizontal. — Erect herbs, with alternate petioled and palmately divided leaves, 
and showy flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. 
1. D. azureum, Michx. Stem mostly simple, downy; leaves 3-5-parted, 
the divisions cleft into 3 - 5-linear, toothed orentire, acute lobes ; racemes many- 
flowered ; pedicels and follicles erect ; spur slightly curved, twice as long as the 
calyx. (D. virescens, Nutt., with wider-lobed leaves, and larger greenish flow- 
ers.) — Rich soil, Florida and northward. May. Y.— Stems 19-99 high. 
Leaves 2'-3' wide. Sepals sky-blue, or sometimes whitish, tipped with brown. 
Lower petals 2-cleft, bearded. 
2. D. tricorne, Michx. Stem simple, downy; leaves as in No.1; ra- 
ceme few-flowered ; pedicels and follicles diverging; spur straight, as long as 
the calyx. — Mountains of North Carolina and northward. April and May. X. 
— Root tuberous. Stems 1° high. Raceme 6 -12-flowered. Sepals blue. 
Lower petals 2-cleft and bearded. 
3. D. exaltatum, Ait. Stem tall, branching and hairy above; leaves 
largó the lower 3 — 5-parted, the divisions cleft into 2-3-lanceolate or oblong 
coarsely-toothed lobes, the upper 3-parted with sparingly toothed or entire lobes ; 
racemes many-flowered ; pedicels diverging; follicles erect ; spur straight, rather 
longer than the calyx. — Mountains of North Carolina and northward. June- 
August. y. — Stem 29—49 high. Leaves 4'—6/ wide. Sepals blue. Lower. 
petals 2-cleft and bearded, brownish. decr ds 
D. Coxsoripa, L., the common annual Larkspur of the gardens, is becom- 
ing naturalized in some places. 
13. ACONITUM, L. Moxxsuoop. Worrsmaxr. 
Sepals 5, irregular, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous ; the outermost 
large and helmet-shaped, the two lateral rounded, the lower smaller and oblong. 
Petals 2 or 5, the two upper long-stalked, produced backward into a short in- 
curved spur, the three lower minute or wanting. Stamens numerous ; filaments 
short, subulate. Ovaries 3-5, 1-celled, many-ovuled. Style subulate. Follicles 
sessile, short pointed. Seed horizontal, rugose. — Erect or trailing, perennial 
herbs, with alternate, palmately divided leaves, and showy flowers in terminal 
racemes or panicles. aces * 
l. A. uncinatum, L. Stem smooth, vine-like, erect; leaves 3 5-cleft, 
with the lobes ovate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed ; raceme few-flowered ; flowers 
large, blue ; upper sepal helmet-shaped. — Shady banks of streams among the 
mountains and northward, rare. June and July. — Stem 20 go long. Leaves 
2. A. reclinatum, Gray. Stem smooth, reclini ; leaves deeply 3—7- 
cleft; the lobes cuneate, acutely toothed emit Eee 
