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conical prickles. — Cornfields ; a troublesome weed. Fl. June. 

 [See also p. 43.] 



(5) Trollius. Globe Flower. 



T. europseus : stems erect^ glabrous, 1-2 feet high, sim- 

 ple, or nearly so ; root-leaves palmately divided into three or 

 five segments, which are lobed and cut, those of the stem few, 

 small, nearly sessile ; flowers large, pale yellow, with ten to fif- 

 teen broad, concave, converging sepals, usually concealing the 

 petals, stamens, and carpels. — Moist mountain pastures. Fl. 

 June, July. 



(6) Aquilegia. Columbine. 



A. vulgaris: stem 1^-3 feet high, leafy ; radical leaves long- 

 stalked, twice ternate, with broad, three-lobed, crenate, glau- 

 cous-green segments ; flowers in a loose panicle, large, droop- 

 ing, blue or dull purple, the petals with incurved spurs. — 

 Coppices and open woods. Fl. June, July. 



(7) Delphinium. Larkspur. 



D. Consolida : annual, erect, about one foot high, branched, 

 nearly glabrous ; leaves stalked, deeply divided into linear seg- 

 ments, the upper ones sessile ; flowers blue, sometimes reddish 

 or white, in loose racemes, the spur of the calyx as long as the 

 rest of the flower ; petals two, their appendages united on the 

 under side into an inner spur; carpel solitary. — Cornfields. 

 Fl. June, July. 



(8) Aconitiun. Monk^s-hood. 



A. Napellus : stem erect, H-2 feet higli ; leaves deeply 5-7- 

 clcft, with linear pointed segments, stalked, or the upper ones 

 nearly sessile, dark green ; flowers, dense, racemose, large. 



