116 



POPULAR FLORA. 



7. Azure L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes ; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- 

 blue or white ; pods erect. -£>. azitreum. 



Aconite* (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) Aco7i\tum. 

 Sepals 5, petal-like, dissimilar, the upper one largest and forming a hood or helmet. Petals only 2, and 

 those are small and curiously shaped bodies, with a curved or hammer-shaped little blade on a long 

 claw, standing under the hood. Pods as in Larkspur. — Flowers in racemes or panicles, showy, blue, 

 or purple, varying to white. Herbage and roots ^Msonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 



1. Garden Aconite. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into 



liue.ar lobes ; flowers crowded. ^- Napcllus. 



2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb ; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate ; flowers scattered, 



in summer. W. -A- uncinatum. 



Fourpetals of Larkspur No. 1 

 uniied into one body. 



250 249 



847. Flower, &c. of Wild Columbine. 

 248. A petal. 249. The 5 pods open- 

 ing. 250. A separale pod. 



252 



251. Flower of Larkspur No. 6. 252. Its 

 sepals aiid petals displayed. 



S5S 

 254. Flower of Aconite. 255 Its parts dis- 

 played : ff, the sepals ; p, the petals { 

 ft, stamens and pistils on the flower-stalk. 



