I20 



rorULAR FLORA. 



7. Azt'RE L. LeavcH parted and cut into narrow linear lobes ; flowers many in a close rncenie, sky- 

 blue or white ; pods erect. Z>. aziireum. 



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 ii 



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Aconite. (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) Acon)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 shajied hodies, witli a curved or hnmmi-r-shaped little blade 

 on a long claw, standing under the hood. I'ods as in Larkspur. Flowers in racemes or panicles, 

 showy, blue, or ]iurple, varying to white. Herbage and roots i)oisun<)i(,'<. (Fit;. 254, 255.) 



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



linear lobes ; flowers crowded. A. NaiH'llus. 



2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb ; lobes of the leaves lance ovate ; tt^wers scat- 



tered, in summer. "SV. . ^ . A, uiicindtiim. 



Ml £34 



Four pi'tils (if l/irkspiir No. 1 

 iiiiitvd into one body; 



■847. Flower, *o. of Wild Columbiiip. 

 248. A petill. '.MO. 'riio .'J pods open- 

 ing. t!oO. A separate liod. 



251. Flower of Uikspur No. fi. 052. Ita 

 sepals aiiJ petals displayed. 



254. Flower of Aeoidte. 2^'y. Its parts dt»-' 

 jilayed : *, the si'pals ; i), tlie petals ; st, 

 staiiieu^ aud pistils on the tlower-stalk. 



