80 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
VII. DELPHINIUM, Tourn. 
Annual or perennial herbs ; stem erect, simple, or branched. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, palmately divided. Flowers in ter- 
minal racemes or panicles, showy. Sepals 5, colored, irregu- 
lar, the upper one prolonged into a spur. Petals 4, unequal, 
the two upper ones with long spurs which are enclosed in the 
spur of the upper sepal, the other two short-stalked. Pistils 
1-5; ovaries many-seeded.* 
1. D. tricorne, Michx. Dwarr Larkspur. Perennial. Stem 
simple, from a tuberous root, usually low (4 to 1 ft. high), but some- 
times 2 ft. high. Leaves deeply 5-parted, the divisions irregularly 
3-5-cleft. Racemes few-flowered, loose. Flowers blue, sometimes 
white. Pods diverging. Southward. 
2. D. azureum, Michx. Buiur Larkspur. Perennial. Stem 
usually simple, slender, downy, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 in. wide, 
3—5-parted, the divisions cleft into 3-5 narrow, toothed, or entire 
lobes. Flowers in a strict, many-flowered, terminal raceme, showy, 
blue or whitish. Spur ascending, curved ; lower petals bearded, 2- 
cleft. Pods erect. On rich or rocky soil in open places, Northward.* 
vill. ACONITUM, L. 
Erect, perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, palmately lobed 
or cut. Flowers irregular, in panicles or racemes. Sepals 5, 
the back one large, arched, and hooded, the front one the 
narrowest. Petals 2-5, small, the 2 back ones clawed and 
covered by the hood of the sepals; 3 lateral ones small 
or wanting. Follicles 3-5. Seeds many, wrinkled. 
1. A. Napellus, L. Monxsuoop. An erect, poisonous plant, 
1-2 ft. high. Raceme simple and densely flowered. Flowers dark 
blue. Cultivated from Europe. 
IX. ANEMONE, Tourn. 
Perennial herbs, usually with radical leaves, and 2 or 3 
opposite or whorled stem-leaves, constituting an involucre 
some distance below the flower or flower-cluster. Sepals few 
or numerous, colored and petal-like. Petals usually wanting. 
Akenes pointed, or with long, feathery tails. 
1. A. patens, var. nuttalliana, Gray. Pasquz Frower. Low 
plants, 1 in. to 1 ft. high, clothed with long, silky hairs. Leaves 
