ACONITUM. 
named, unless it be to single out the varieties carnewm and roseum 
for special warning, these alluring epithets covering, in reality, colours 
of a dim and unwholesome dinginess. The blue and white bicolor 
form is good, however, and so is the dark-blue form called Spark’s 
variety. Hminens is a much taller development. All forms bloom 
in high summer, through July and August. 
paniculatum, another European species, with loose heads of 
rather handsome big blossoms, variegated from blue to white. 
pyramidale (Stoerkeanum), silken violet flowers with woolly 
helm. July. 
tauricum, a form quite near Napellus, dark rich blue. July to 
August. 
variegatum, with leaves very finely and deeply slit, and flowers 
in spires of deep-blue to white, with a woolly helm remarkably in- 
curving. July. 
Wilsonit, incomparably the most magnificent of all. A giant 
from China, attaining 6 feet or so, with very handsome dark foliage, 
and great loose towers through late summer and autumn, of enormous 
ample flowers, imperial in their deep violet, carried on long stalks, 
so that the aspiring column has a rare delicacy in all its splendour. 
HERBACEOUS ACONITES WITH YELLOW FLOWERS 
Anthora, a really handsome but uncommon species from the 
European Alps, with habit and flowers not unlike those of Napellus, 
but that the helmets are gathered into a much shorter spike, are fewer 
in number, and of a clear yellow. 
Lycoct6num is A. Vulparia, q.v. 
orientale (ochroleucum) has a narrow cylindrical helm of yellowy- 
white, and does not exceed 3 feet in height. 
pyrenaicum, very nearly a form of Vulparia, and sometimes 
called neapolitanum. It is close to its type but better worth growing, 
having leaves more finely divided, and long close spikes of flowers, 
but of a clearer yellow. 
Vulparia (Lycoctonum) is the common universal Aconite of the 
alpine woods—a tall species, with long thin close spikes of long thin 
narrow flowers of pale yellow. 
(A. aureum, about 18 inches high, with flowers not golden by any 
means, but of a greenish yellow, is a species of obscure place and 
provenance and name.) 
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