5 — ee = a a eS AT r s x 
34 Bot ie to the of North Carolina. 
Mr. Nuttall could not have met with this exclusively mountain 
plant near Wilmington; and also, that the C. Lyoni of Pursh 
and the C. latifolia of Muhlenberg and Elliott, are doubtless 
founded upon one and the same species. Both, indeed, are said 
to have been collected by Lyon, and the leaves vary from ovate- — 
lanceolate or oval with an acute base, to ovate with a rounded, 
but scarcely cordate base. Pursh’s character is drawn from a 
cultivated specimen. Here we again met with the Aconitum 
previously observed in similar situations on the Negro Moun- 
tain, and which, being then | only i in cs took for the A. 
uncinatum, a species collected 4 ris regia n by Michaux, and 
recently by Mr. Curtis and other Soma We were Smee 
surprised, therefore, to find that 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. Lycocto- 
num.* On our return to Jefferson, we obtained good se 
at our original locality, where it zs 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 aré so different from 
those of A. uncinatum, it can hardly be the plant mentioned by 
Pursh under that species, which he-saw at the footof the Peaks 
of Otter, and about the Sweet Springs, in Virginia. It may be 
remarked, that the ovaries of A. uncinatum are often nearly 
glabrous, and the claws of the petals entirely so: the seéds are 
strongly plicate-rugose, with a wing-like margin on one side. 
* ACoNITUM RECLINATUM (spec, nov. § Per erreegens) = eaule elongato decum- 
bente foliisque palmatifidis glabris, lobis di apicem versus incisis, 
racemis paniculisve divergentibus laxifloris Globee sitediss bracteolis minimis, 
galea horizontalj conico-cylindracea ore obliquo, labio cucullorum obcordato ab 
ungue distante, caleare adunco, filamentis edentilis, carpal glabris 2-4-sper- 
mis, seminibus (imm aturis) squamoso-rugosis. 
ab, in opacissimis sylvis ad montes Negro Mountain et Grandfather dictos, 
alt. 4000—5000 pedes. Julio-Augusto floret—Caulis flaccidus, adscendens v 
declinatus, denique procumbens, 3-8-pedalis, ramis gracilibus, seu paniculis laxi- 
floris, divaricatis. Folia flaccida; inferiora longe petiolata, (citcumseriptione sub- 
orbiculari,) profunde 5-7-fida; segmentis interdam 2-3-lobatis, apice inciso- 
dentatis, dentibus mucronatis ; summa subsessilia, 3-5-partita; venis et pagi 
quandoque superiori tenuissime pubescentibus. Pedicelli sparsi (pe dunculique 
puberuli,) flore longiores, bracteolis 2-3 minimis stipati. Flores minores quam 
A. sine uate albi vix flavidis tineti a siccis — La rane ee 
Ske eactieaeais Diigais petalorum acters pss alexa 3 saccus ree 
ore valde obliquo in labium obcordatum expanso. Ovaria tria, 4-6-ovulata. 
