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x. Aconitum Noveboracénse A. Gray. 
New York Monkshood. (Fig. 1566. ) 
Aconitum Noveboracense A. Gray; Coville, Bull. 
Torr. Club, 13: 190. 1886 
Slender, erect, about 2° high, leafy. Lower 
leaves all petioled, 3’—-4’ broad, nearly orbicular, 
deeply 5-7-cleft, the divisions obovate, cuneate, 
toothed and cut, acute or acuminate, glabrous, 
rather thin; upper leaves nearly sessile, 3-5- 
cleft, otherwise similar, subtending branches of 
the loose pubescent few-flowered panicle; flow- 
ers blue, 6’’ broad, about 1’ high, the arched 
gibbous helmet tipped with a prominent de- 
scending beak about 3’” long; follicles erect, 
3/’ long, subulate-beaked. 
Orange, Ulster and Chenango Counties, N. Y. 
Nearest A. paniculatum Tam. of central Europe. 
June-Aug. 
2. Aconitum uncinatum [L,, Wild Monks- 
hood. (Fig. 1567.) 
Aconitum uncinatum J,. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 750. 1762. 
Slender, weak, 2°-4° long, ascending or climb- 
ing, leafy. Leaves thick, broader than long, 3/—4’ 
wide, deeply 3-5-lobed or cleft; .lobes oblong or 
ovate-lanceolate, cleft or toothed, acute, glabrous 
or nearly so; panicle few-flowered, pubescent; 
flowers clustered at the ends of its branches, blue, 
1’ broad or more; helmet erect, obtusely conic, 
acute in front but scarcely beaked; follicles 3, 6//— 
7’’ long, subulate-beaked. 
Wk) : 
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ARS In woods, southern Pennsylvania and south along 
the mountains to Georgia. Also in Wisconsin. 
Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. June—Sept. 
3. Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray. 
Trailing Wolfsbane. (Fig. 1568.) 
Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 42: L474 a 
. 1842. L «= h 
34. 184 ey ZX f 
Trailing, 2°-8° long. Leaves 3-7-cleft, all 
but the upper petioled, thin, the lower 6’-S’ 
broad, mainly obovate, acute, toothed and cleft 
toward the apex; simple panicle or raceme 
loose, pubescent; flowers white, 8/’-10’’ long; 
helmet horizontal or nearly so, elongated-conic, 
with a straight, short beak; follicles 3, 5’’ long, 
with slender divergent beaks. 
In woods, Cheat Mountain, Virginia, south along 
the Alleghanies to Georgia. Ascends to 5500 ft. in 
North Carolina. July—Aug. 
