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our plant, here just coming into blossom, had cream-colored 
flowers, very different from those of A+ uncinatum, and more 
nearly resembling those of A. Lycoctonum.! On our return 
to Jefferson, we obtained good specimens at our original 
locality, where it is very abundant. The weak stems at first 
ascending, become prostrate when the plant is in flower, and 
frequently attain the length of seven or eight feet. As the 
stem does not climb, and its flowers are so different from 
those of A. uncinatum, it can hardly be the plant mentioned 
by Pursh under that species, which he saw at the foot of the 
Peaks of Otter and about the Sweet Springs in Virginia. It 
may be remarked that the ovaries of A. wncinatum are often 
nearly glabrous, and the claws of the petals entirely so. The 
seeds are strongly plicate-rugose, with a wing-like margin on 
one side. 
Near the summit of the mountain we saw immense quanti- 
ties of a low but very large-leaved Solidago, not yet in flower, 
which I take to be the S. glomerata of Michaux, who could 
not have failed to observe such a conspicuous and abundant 
plant, especially as it must have been in full blossom at the 
1 Aconitum reclinatum (spee. nov. § Lycoctonum): caule elongato 
decumbente foliisque palmatifidis glabris, lobis divaricatis cuneatis apicem 
versus incisis, racemis paniculisve divergentibus laxifloris (floribus albi- 
dis), bracteolis minimis, galea horizontali conico-cylindracea ore obliquo, 
labio cucullorum obcordato ab ungue distante, calcare adunco, filamentis 
edentulis, carpellis glabris 2-4-spermis, seminibus (immaturis) squamoso- 
rugosis. 
Hab. in opacissimis sylvis ad montes Negro Mountain et Grandfather 
dictos, alt. 4000-5000 pedes. Julio-Augusto floret. Caulis flaccidus, 
adscendens vel declinatus, denique procumbens, 3-8 pedalis, ramis gracili- 
bus, seu paniculis laxifloris, divaricatis. Folia flaccida ; inferiora longe 
petiolata (cireumscriptione suborbiculari), profunde 5-7 fida ; segmentis 
interdum 2-3 lobatis apice incisodentatis dentibus mucronatis; summa 
subsessilia, 3-5 partita; venis et pagina quandoque superiori tenu- 
issime pubescentibus. Pedicelli sparsi (pedunculique puberuli) flore 
longiores, bracteolis 2-3 minimis stipati. Flores minores quam in A. 
Lycoctono, albi vix flavidis tineti (in siecis leviter purpurascentes); sepalis 
intus pilis aureis barbatis. Galea primum adscendens, mox horizontalis, 
rostello brevi ractiusculo. Unguis petalorum medium cuculli adfixus ; 
saccus angustus, ore valde obliquo in labium obcordatum expanso. 
Ovyaria tria, 4-6—-ovulata. 
