252 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



unto a small, short carrot root, sometimes two being 

 joined at the head together. It is the true Napellus 

 of the ancient writers, which they so termed from 

 the form of a turnip called Napus in Latin." 



Generally speaking the leaf and flower of the 

 monk's-hood resemble the larkspur; and, like the 

 larkspur and the columbine, the plant has wandered 

 away from its original family, the buttercup tribe. 

 The upper sepal has developed from a spur into a 

 hood. 



