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ten innermost are equal in length, and 

 blunter than the rest, composing two rows ; 

 the calyx altogether is shorter than the 

 corolla, tubular, swelling, and downy. Flo- 

 rets equal in number to the leaves of the 

 calyx. Germen short, square, crowned 

 with long wliite radiating down. Petal 

 flat, cut a^vay on one side, violet-coloured, 

 five- toothed. Stamens five, white, their 

 apex (anther) cylindrical, five-sided, white, 

 marked with five blue lines. Pistil one, 

 forked at the top. Receptacle naked, dot- 

 ted. This plant grows among trees at the 

 sides of mountains, along with the narrow - 

 hooded Aconite (Acojiitum lycoctoniim)^ 

 flowering at the end of July or beginning 

 of August. The stem, which is milky, is 

 eaten by the Laplanders in the same man- 

 ner as Angelica. The taste was to me very 

 bitter, but the people of the country do 

 not find it so, though they confessed that 

 it appeared bitter to them when they first 

 learned to eat it. As soon as the plant 



