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D. Ajhcis, Linn. Rocket L. More showy in gardens, and with simi- 

 lar flowers crowded in a long close raceme, and downy pods ; spur shorter ; 

 some marks on the front of the united petals were fancied to read AIAI 

 = Ajax. Eu. 



» » Perennials, with 4 separate petals and 2-5, mostly 3, pistUs. 

 I- Flowers deep blue to white ; cultivated. 



D. grandiflorum, Linn. Great-fl L. (Known also as D. Chine'nse and 

 D. Sinense). l°-2°high, leaves cut into narrow linear divisions ; flowers 

 U' or more across ; sepals ample, oval ; the 2 lower petals rounded and en- 

 tire. Various in color, also double-flowered ; summer. Siberia and China. 



D. chei/dnthum, Fischer, commonly still larger-flowered, with lower 

 petals also entire or nearly so ; the mostly downy leaves have fewer and 

 lanceolate or wedge-lanceolate divisions ; is now much modified by culti- 

 vation. D. form6sum, Showy L., is one of the various garden forms. 

 Summer. Siberia. 



D. eldtum, Linn. Bee Larkspur, from Eu., is very tall and somewhat 

 pubescent, with leaves 5-7-cleft, and the long divisions lobed or toothed ; 

 flowers many in a long wand-like raceme, the lower petals 2-cleft and 

 yellowish bearded ; spur curved. 



-I- t- Flowers deep blue to white ; indigenous. 



D. exalt^tTim, Ait. Tall Wild L. 2°-5° high ; leaves deeply 3-6- 

 eleft, the divisions narrow, wedge-form, or wedge-oblong, diverging 

 3-cleft at apex ; flowers and panicled racemes hoary or downy ; spur 

 straight; pods erect ; summer. Henn., W. and S. 



D. aziireum, Michx. Azure L. Often downy, \°-S high°, with narrow 

 linear divisions to the leaves, and a spike-like raceme of rather small 

 flowers in spring ; sepals and 2-cleft lower petals oblong ; spurs curved 

 up ; pods erect. Var. with full double flowers in gardens ; summer. 

 Wis. to Dak. and S. 



D. tricdrae, Michx. Dwarf Wild L, 6'-3° high, from a branched 

 tuberous root ; leaves with broadly linear lobes and a loose raceme of few 

 or several rather large showy flowers in spring ; sepals and cleft lower 

 petals oblong ; pods strongly diverging. Open woods from Penn., W. and S. 



-t- ^- +- Flowers scarlet and yellow ; cult, from California. 



D. nudicaule^ Torr. & Gray. l°-2° high, few-leaved, leaves deeply cleft 

 into obovate or wedge-shaped divisions ; racemes loose ; pedicels 2'-^' long. 



18. ACONITUM, ACONITE, WOLFSBANE, MONKSHOOD. (An- 

 cient name.) % Root thick, tuberous, or turnip-shaped, a virulent 

 poison, and used as medicine. Leaves palmately divided or cleft and 

 cut-lobed. Flowers showy. The large upper sepal from its shape is 

 called the hood or helmet. Under it are two long-stalked, queer little 

 bodies which answer for petals. (Lessons, Figs. 242-244.) Flowers 

 m summer. ^ Leaves deeply cleft into 3-7 lobes. 



A. uncinitum, Linn. Wild A. or Movkshood. Stem slender, 3°-5°, 

 erect, but weak and inclined to climb ; leaves cleft or parted into 3-5 

 ovate or wedge-lanceolate, cut-toothed lobes ; flowers loosely panicled, 

 blue ; the roundish helmet nearly as broad as high, its pointed visor 

 turned down. Low grounds from Penn., S. and W. 



A. reclin^tum, Gray. Trailing Wolfsbane. Smooth, stems trailing; 

 leaves deeply 3-7-cleft'; flowers wnite , helmet soon horizontal, elongated 

 conical. AUeghany Mountains, S. 



