Voi,. II.] 



CROWFOOT FAMILY 



i. Aconitum Noveboracense A. Gray. 

 New York Monkshood. (Fig. 1566.) 



Aconitum Noveboracense A. Gray; Coville, Bull. 

 Torr. Club, 13: 190. 1886. 



Slender, erect, about 2 high, leafy. Lower 

 leaves all petioled, 3'-4 x broad, nearly orbicular, 

 deeply 5-7-cleft, the divisions obovate, cuneate, 

 toothed and cut, acute or acuminate, glabrous, 

 rather thin; upper leaves nearly sessile, 3-5- 

 cleft, otherwise similar, subtending branches of 

 the loose pubescent few-flowered panicle; flow- 

 ers blue, 6" broad, about i / high, the arched 

 gibbous helmet tipped with a prominent de- 

 scending beak about 3" long; follicles erect, 

 3 // long, subulate-beaked. 



Orange, Ulster and Chenango Counties, N. Y. 

 Nearest A. paniculatum Lam. of central Europe. 

 June-Aug. 



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2. Aconitum uncinatum L/. Wild Monks- 

 hood. (Fig. 1567.) 



Aconitum uncinatum L- Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 750. 1762. 



Slender, weak, 2-4 long, ascending or climb- 

 ing, leafy. Leaves thick, broader than long, 3 X -4 X 

 wide, deeply 3~5-lobed or cleft; lobes oblong or 

 ovate-lanceolate, cleft or toothed, acute, glabrous 

 or nearly so; panicle few-flowered, pubescent; 

 flowers clustered at the ends of its branches, blue, 

 i x broad or more; helmet erect, obtusely conic, 

 acute in front but scarcely beaked; follicles 3, 6"- 

 7" long, subulate-beaked. 



In woods, southern Pennsylvania and south along 

 the mountains to Georgia. Also in Wisconsin. 

 Ascends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. June-Sept. 



3. Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray. 

 Trailing Wolfsbane. (Fig. 1568.) 



Aconilum reclinatum A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci.42: 

 34- 1842. 



Trailing, 2-8 long. Leaves 3-7-cleft, all 

 but the upper petioled, thin, the lower 6 / -8 / 

 broad, mainly obovate, acute, toothed and cleft 

 toward the apex; simple panicle or raceme 

 loose, pubescent; flowers white, 8 // -io // long; 

 helmet horizontal or nearly so, elongated-conic, 

 with a straight, short beak; follicles 3, 5" long, 

 with slender divergent beaks. 



In woods, Cheat Mountain, Virginia, south along 

 the Alleghanies to Georgia. Ascends to 5500 ft. in 

 North Carolina. July-Aug. 



