10 . RANUNCULACFJE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 



ovulcd. Style subulate. Follicles sessile, short-pointed. Seeds in two rows, 

 horizontal. Ercet herbs, with alternate petioled and palmately divided leaves, 

 and showy flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. 



1. D. azureum, Michx. Stem mostly simple, downy ; leaves 3 - 5-parted, 

 the divisions cleft into 3 - 5-linear, toothed or entire, acute lobes ; racemes many- 

 flowered ; pedicels and follicles erect ; spur slightly curved, twice as long as the 

 calyx. (D. virescens, Nutt., with wider-lobed leaves, and larger greenish flow- 

 ers.) Rich soil, Florida and northward. May. 1J.. Stems l-2 high. 

 Leaves 2' - 3' wide. Sepals sky-blue, or sometimes whitish, tipped with brown. 

 Lower petals 2-cleft, bearded. 



2. D. trieorne, Michx. Stem simple, downy ; leaves as in No. 1 ; ra- 

 ceme few-flowered ; pedicels and follicles diverging ; spur straight, as long as 

 the calyx. Mountains of North Carolina and northward. April and May. 1J. . 

 Root tuberous. Stems 1 high. Raceme 6 -12-flowered. Sepals blue. 

 Lower petals 2-cleft and bearded. 



3. D. exaltatum, Ait. Stem tall, branching and haiiy above; leaves 

 large, the lower 3 - 5-parted, the divisions cleft into 2 - 3-lanceolate or oblong 

 coarsely-toothed lobes, the upper 3-parted with sparingly toothed or entire lobes ; 

 racemes many-flowered ; pedicels diverging ; follicles erect ; spur straight, rather 

 longer than the calyx. Mountains of North Carolina and northward. June - 

 August. 1J.. Stem 2 -4 high. Leaves 4' -6' wide. Sepals blue. Lower 

 petals 2-cleft and bearded, brownish. 



D. CONSOLIDA, L., the common annual Larkspur of the gardens, is becom- 

 ing naturalized in some places. 



13. ACONITUM, L. MONKSHOOD. WOLFSBANE. 



Sepals 5, irregular, colored, imbricated in the bud, deciduous ; the outermost 

 large and helmet-shaped, the two lateral rounded, the lower smaller and oblong. 

 Petals 2 or 5, the two upper long-stalked, produced backward into a short in- 

 curved spur, the three lower minute or wanting. Stamens numerous ; filaments 

 short, subulate. Ovaries 3-5, 1 -celled, many-ovuled. Style subulate. Follicles 

 sessile, short pointed. Seed horizontal, rugose. Erect or trailing, perennial 

 herbs, with alternate, palmately divided leaves, and showy flowers in terminal 

 racemes or panicles. 



1. A. uncinatum, L. Stem smooth, vine-like, erect; leaves 3-5-cleft, 

 with the lobes ovate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed ; raceme few-flowered ; flowers 

 large, blue ; upper sepal helmet-shaped. Shady banks of streams among the 

 mountains and northward, rare. June and July. Stem 2 - 6 long. Leaves 

 rather rigid. 



2. A. redinatum, Gray. Stem smooth, reclining ; leaves deeply 3-7- 

 oleft ; the lobes cuneate, acutely toothed ; racemes numerous, few - many-flow- 

 ered, flowers white ; upper sepal elongated-conical, soon becoming horizontal. 

 High mountains of North Carolina. July and August. Stems 4 - 8 long. 

 Leaves thin. 



