ORD. XXVI. MULTISILIQUA. 
: (From Multus, many, and Siliqua, a Pod.) 
Plants which have more seed vessels than, one. 
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ee Se 
ACONITUM NAPELLUS. COMMON WOLF’s-BANE, 
; Or MONK’s HOOD. 
ON OA 
SYNONYMA. Aconitum, Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Stoerck tab. 3. 
Aconitum czruleum seu Napellus, Bauh. Pin. 183. Aconitum- 
caule simplici, spica densa, petiolis unifloris, casside breviter 
mucronata, Hal. Stirp. Helv. No. 1197, vires autem, No. 1198, 
Aconitum verus ceruleus, Gerard. Aconitum, Spee. 1, Raii. 
Napellus, Matth. Camerar. Dodon. &c. 
Ciass Polyandria. Order Trigynia. L. Gen. Plant. 682. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 0.  Petala 5: supremo fornicato, Nectaria 
2, pedunculata, recurya. Silique, 3s. 5. 
Sp. Ch, A. foliorum laciniis linearibus superne latioribus linea 
exaratis, : 
THE root is perennial, turnip-shaped, or more commonly 
fusiform ; the stalk is simple, erect, strong, beset with many 
leaves, and grows from two to five feet high: the leaves are lobed, 
deeply laciniated, and stand alternately upon long footstalks, but 
the upper leaves are almost sessile, and the facinise much broader 
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