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cuneate and incised and dentate : flowers pale blue ; helmet 

 higher than broad, being ^-3^ in. long ; beak often elongated ; 

 lower petals small, oblong : follicles erect, oblong, reticulate. 

 Autumn. Of wide geographic range, being found in many- 

 parts of Asia, Europe and in the U. S. west of the Rockies. 

 Introduced 1889. Bot. Mag. 7130. 



A. Japonicum Decne. in Rev. Hort. 473. 185 1. 



Stem erect, 3-4 ft. high, smooth ; leaves dark green, shining, 

 petioled, lobes 2-3 times cut, parts blunt and deeply toothed ; 

 flowers large, deep blue or violet tinged with red ; loose pan- 

 icles with ascending branches ; helmet conical, beak abruptly 

 pointed: follicles 5. July-Sept. Japan. Introduced 1889. 

 Rev. Hort. 1. c. 



Va7\ coeruleum Hort. Flowers very abundant ; panicles 

 shortened. 



A. uncinatum Linn, Sp. PI. 2 ed. 750. 1762. 

 A. Jafonicimi Thunb. F1. Jap. 232. 1784. 

 A. volubile Muhl. Cat. 52. 1813. 

 A. scandens Muhl. ex Rchb. Uebers. 38. 1819. 

 A. variegatum Hook. f. & Thoms. F1. Ind. 56. 1858. 



Stem slender, 3-5 ft. high; inclined to climb ; glabrous below 

 the inflorescence : leaves thick, deeply cut into 3-5 cut-toothed 

 lobes : flowers loosely panicled but crowded at the apex ; blue, 

 pubescent, i inch broad ; helmet erect, nearly as broad as long, 

 obtusely conic, beak or point of helmet turned inward : follicles 

 3, ^ in. long. June-Sept. Low grounds of Penn., South and 

 West, Japan. Much planted now. Meehan's Mo. 4 : 81. Bot. 

 Mag. 1119. 



A. bulbiferum Howell, F1. N. W. Am. i : 25. 1897. 



Stems slender, weak and vine}^ 2-4 ft. long ; smooth below, 

 tomentose above : leaves rather small, on short petioles, or the 

 upper sessile, bearing bulblets in their axils, all laciniately cut 

 into acute lobes : sepals pale blue ; hood 6-8 lines long. Fruit 

 not seen. In marshes on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mts. 

 near Mt. Hood. Flowering in Sept. Described from the 

 original. (I) 



A. heterophyllum Wall. Cat. 4722. 1828. Bot. Mag. 6092. 

 1874. 

 A. cordatum Royle. Illustr. 56. 1839. "^^^ Rafin. 

 Stem robust, 3 ft. high : lower leaves petioled, upper ones 



