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POPULAR FLORA. 



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

 blue or white ; pods erect. JJ. azureum^ 



Aconite* (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) AconMum. 

 Sepals 5j 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, shovi'y, blue, 

 or purple, varying to white. Herbage and \'oo\.s poisonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 



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



linear lobes; flowers crowded. A. Napellus. 



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



in summer. W. A. uncinatum. 



250 249 



347. Flower, &c. of Wild Columbine. 

 248. A ptial. y-19. The 5 pojs open- 

 ing. 250. A scpuraie puu. 



252 

 [spur 

 Ecpala and pciiila displayed. 



254. Flower of Aconite. 255 Its parts dl» 

 played: «, the sej^iAts ; », ilic pctnlsj 

 St, Btnmensaiid piaula on llm Qower-slalli. 



