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Flowers rather large, in a loose raceme or panicle, blue, purplish, pink or white, rarely 

 yellow. Filaments sometimes dilated at the base. Europe, Asia, North America. 



25. *Aconitum. Sepals 5, petaloid, unequal ; posterior large, helmet-shaped, covering the 

 corolla ; 2 lateral larger than the 2 anterior. Petals 2-8, small, very unequal, the two upper 

 with long claws, cucullate at the top, hidden under the helmet ; the lower minute, filiform, 

 often 0. Carpels 3-5, sessile, distinct, many-ovuled, follicular when ripe. Seeds with spongy 

 testa, deeply wrinkled. Erect herbs ; rootstock perennial. Leaves palmati-lobed or -sect. 

 Flowers racemed or panicled, blue, purplish, yellow or white ; pedicels bra-cteolate. Filaments 

 usually dilated at the base. Europe, Asia. 



Aconite. (Aconitum Napellus}. 



Aconite. 

 , entire and cut vertically (mag.). 



Aconite 



Stamen (mag.). 



Aconite. 



Flower deprived of its calyx, 

 petals in a hood, pedieelled. 



Aconite. 

 Pistil with one stamen (mag.). 



Aconite. Diagram. 



Aconite. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



2G. *Actsea. Sepals 3-5, subequal, petaloid, deciduous. Petals 4-10, small, clawed, 

 spathulate, flat. Carpel solitary, many-ovuled, berried when ripe. Seeds depressed ; testa 

 crustaceous, smooth. Herbs ; rootstock perennial, fusiform ; stem erect. Leaves ternately 



