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Hyadnthus. Theocr., Idyl., 19, and Ovid, Metam. (DC.) 



Between Wild Rice River and Red Lake River, September, 1860. — Dr. Schullz. 

 In the species Plantarum, Linnsens gives a blank habitat for this plant, as if it were 

 known, in his day, not as a wild plant at all, but only as a garden flower. The specimens 

 collected by Dr. Schultz may have grown from seeds accidentally dropped by a traveller. 

 It should, however, be looked for, now that the country is settled. Trautvetter, in his 

 Enumeration of the Plants collected by Radde in the Caucasus in 18*75, cites a station 

 for this species in Russian Armenia, as if it were there indigenous. 



Genus XIII.— ACONITUM, Linnœus. 



Bentham and Hooker, Grenera Plantarum, I., p. 9. 

 List of species : — 



1. A. Napellus. 



2. A. delphinifolium. 



[A. Fischeri] 



1. — AcoNiTUM Napellus, Linnœus, 



Tall (2 feet or more), straight, erect, leafy. Leaves very dark dull green, furrowed on 

 the upper surface, palmately lobed, the lobes pinnatifid. Flowers very numerous, closely 

 set, on short pedicels, forming long, slender, simple racemes. Galea nearly hemispherical, 

 sepals dark blue, dull or lurid before expansion. Whole plant more or less pubescent. 

 Readily distinguished by its very long racemes, which are not at all corymbose. Root- 

 stock fusiform, black, yields the very poisonous alkaloid Aconitine. Several other Euro- 

 pean and Asiatic species are cultivated in gardens, with which this is apt to be confounded. 

 Monkshood. Wolf's Bane. 



Aconitum Napellus. Linn. Species Plantarum, p. 151 (excl. syn. Gronov. Virg., 165). 

 Kcelle, Specileg. Aconit., p. 14. cum ic. (1188). Willdenow, Sp. PL, IL, p. 1235. Smith, 

 English Flora, III., p. 31. Aiton f , Hort. Kew., III., p. 323. Hooker, Brit. Fl. Babington, 

 Manual. Wood, CI. Bk. & Fl., p. 211. Hook, f. Student's Flora, p. 12. 



A. vulgare. DC. Syst. Nat., I., p. 311. 



Found occasionally as a garden outcast, but not inclined to spread in Canada. Near 

 Falls of Montmorenci. — M7: Thomas. Sir Joseph Hooker gives its distribution as Europe, 

 Siberia, West A.sia to the Himalaya. Noticed (1811) by Aiton as a native of Germany, 

 France and Switzerland, first cultivated in England in 1596 by Mr. John Gerard. It was 

 first found wild in England, (in Herefordshire), abundantly in 1819 by Rev. E. Whitehead, 

 Oxon. (Eng. Fl.,) ; is now regarded as doubtfully native in Wales, Hereford and Somerset ; 

 naturalized elsewhere ; a denizen? — Watson. Not noticed in the early British Floras. The 

 original A. Napellus of Linnœus seems to have included at least two European and one 

 American species. 



2. — Aconitum delphinifolium, Rdchenbach. 



Plant rather low and spreading, with fine pubescence or glabrous, few- or many- 

 flowered. Leaves round-reniform in outline, palmately lobed, lobes incisely crenate, 



Sec. IV., 1884, 11. 



