BUTTERCUP FAMILY 



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I.* D. Ajacii (Larkspur).— About a foot high: leaves cut into 

 many linear lobci ; floicers 4 — 16 in a raceme, i in. acro.ss, blue, 

 white, or pink ; y;-;//? of i pubescent follicle. — A doubtful native, 

 though often in considerable quantity in sandy or chalky corn- 

 fields. — Fl. June, July. Annual. Several species are grown in 

 gardens. 



13. AcoNiTUM (Monk's-hood). — Erect pe'rennial herbs; Uaves 

 palmately lobed ; floicers racemose, monosjm metric : sepals 5, 

 petaloid, deciduous, the posterior one hooded ; petals 2 — 5, the 

 two posterior ones tubular, with long claws, enclosed within the 



DELFHIXIL'M AJACI5 {La^k.^pUr), 



nItU.M .N.^PtLLUS i^Mcnk'^-hccd), 



hooded sepal ; fotlieles 3 — 5. (^Xame classical, but of uncertain 

 origin.) 



I. A. Napllliis (Monk's-hood, Wolfs bane V — i -2 feet high; 

 rhizome fusiform, black ; leaf-lohes pmnatifid : raceme unbranched : 

 flaii'ers i — il in. across, purplish-blue. A common garden 

 plant, remarkable for the curious structure of, its flower, especially 

 the hammer-like honev-containing petals enclosed under the hood. 

 The name JS'af-el'us is, a diminutive of napi/s, the Latin for a 

 turnip, from the shape of the rhizome : but the whole plant, and 

 especially this rhizome, is very poisonous. Vi derives its name of 

 ^\'olfs-bane from being used to poison the* bait in wolf-traps. 

 — Damp shady places. — Fl. June — September". Perennial. 



14. AcT.EA ( Baneberry'i. — Erect perennial herbs: leaves ter- 

 nately compound : nozcers small, in crowded racemes: sepals 3 — 5, 



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