Davis: A SYNONYMIC CONSPECTUS OF ACONITUMS. 351 



A. lauricum WULF. in Jacq. Coll. 2: 112. 1788. 



A. neubergense DC. Syst. I : 373. 1818. 



A. strictum BERNII. ex DC. 1. c. 373. 



A. laxiflornm SCHL. Cat. 5. 1821. 



Napellus vulgar is FOURR. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. 



s. 16: 326. 1868. 



REICHENBACH has given twenty-four names to forms of 

 this : acutum, ambiguum, amcenum, Bcrnhardianum, 

 Braunii) callibotryon, clusianum, commutatum,firmum, 

 formosum, Funkianum, /lians, Hoppeanum, Koehleri, 

 IcBtum, laxiflorum SCHL., laxum, Mielichhoferi, napel- 

 loides Sw., oligocarpum, rigidum, tennifolium, venus- 

 tum, virgatum. 



The best known, as well as the most poisonous species. 

 Stem erect, 3-4 ft. high : leaves divided to the base and cleft 

 3 times into linear lobes : flowers blue in a raceme : peduncles 

 rect, pubescent : helmet broad and low, gaping, smoothish : 

 : ollicles 4, rarely 3. June-July. Europe, and naturalized 

 icre. Gartenflora, 35 : 227 (named A. dissectum Don.), 

 iegne Vegetal, Med. PI. 2. There are very many varieties, 

 iffering in shade of flowers, often mottled or lined with white. 

 Var. album is nearly white. Var. bicolor and Var. versicolor 

 are much used in gardens for the large blue-and-white flowers. 

 Jot. Cab. 8 : 794 (vcrsicolor}. 



A. delphinifolium DC. Syst. 1 : 380. 1818. 



A. Napellus var. delphinifolium SERINGE, Mus. Helv. i : 



159. 1823. 

 REICHENBACH used for forms of this : Chamissonianum, 



paradoxum, semigaleatum. 



Stem erect, 1-3 feet high, pubescent : leaves deeply parted, 

 ind cleft into narrow lobes : flowers blue, large ; hood low, 

 >eak short ; lateral sepals as long and twice as broad as the 

 ower : follicles oblong. British Columbia and Alaska through 

 slands of Behring Strait to Asia. 



Var. ramosum n. var. 



A. ramosum A. NELS. Bull. Torr. Club 26: 8. 1899. 

 Much like the type : leaves larger with fewer and longer 

 egments : follicles less pubescent. Professor Nelson consid- 

 ers the pubescence different. Only once found : Limestone 

 iange, Black Hills, Weston Co., Wyom. Co-type at Colum- 



