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6. ACONITUM L. Aconite. Monkshood 



Perennial •* herbs, with palmately lobed or dissected leaves, and sjiowy 

 flowers in terniinal racemes or "panibles. Sepals 5, petal-like; tn? upper one 

 largej helmet-shaped or prolonged' saccate. .Petals 2-5 ;i the upper two with 

 long nectariferous claws and irregular spur-like blades concealed within the 

 hood; the'3 Iqwer very nrinute or obsolete. Follicles 3-5j with several to 

 many squamellbse seeds. 



Primary leaf-segments rarely* cleft below the middlp. ' ' 



, ' Flowers blue, sometimes very pale: ';■-': . < - , 



Raceme open ror paniculate, few-flowered . . . .;■.!. A. columbianunt* 



Rac'e^nie den^ei subspicate . .. : ' . . . . . 2. A. Baker! . ^ 



Flowers ochroleucous .' . . L'" . . "i' . . 3. A. I'utescens. 



Primary leafysegments cleft nearly to tUe base , . ' . ' . . 4. A; ramosum. 



1. Aconitum columbianum Nutt, T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 34. 1838. More or 

 less pubescent'above with short spreading viscid hairs: stem stout, 9-18 dm. 

 high: divisions of the leaves broadly cuneate, laciniately toothed, lobed, qi 

 cleft tc| near the middle: flowers blue, sometimes pale or nearly white, some- 

 what pubescent,, rather few, jn a, loose terminal panicle-like raoeni^: ,hood 

 12-lS imm! long, the helmet-shapeid portion higher than broad; the beak vari- 

 s^hle, porrect or downwardly curved. (A. insigrie, Greene, in herb.),— Moist 

 open woodg; from New Mexico to British Colunibia. 



'' ^ 2. Aconitum Bakeri Greene, tl. Baker. 3: 5. ,1901. The whole upper por- 

 tion of the plant, even the flowers, short-hirsute with glandular hairs, or some- 

 what viscid-villous: root semifleshy, short, fusiform: stem stoutish, erect, 

 simple and ratl^er strict, 5—7 dm. high: leaves mostly 5-parted, the cuneate 

 divisions doubly about 3-cleft. ijid near the middle: raceme compact or sub- 

 spicdte, the flowers us;ially dafk'blue: hood 15-18 mm. long, scarcely higher 

 tn an broad iJieak subulate, usually prpj'ecting horizontally: follicles glabrous, 

 about 4. {A.''dlrocya!newni Rydb., BulV Torr. Bot, Club 29: 150. 1902; 4, 

 porrecturri Ry<}b, 1. c.) — Moist subalpine stations; Colorado mountains, 



3. Aconitum lutescens A. Nels. Bot. Ga;Z. 42: 51.' 1906. Root small, 

 {uniform-tuberous; -stems slender, simple,; erect, only 3-6 dm. high,,. glabrous 

 nearly to the inflorescence; leaves 3-5 cm', broad; the 6 broadly cuneate :diyi- 

 Sions, deeply and incisely toothed above th^ middle: raceme narrow, long for 

 the plant, rather open; the floprers a pure cream-colpr, becoming nearly. whUe. 

 oi* pinkish in, drying; rachis and pedicels softly hirsute-ciliate with sti;aight 

 tiscid hairs, standing , put at right a,ngles. — ^Wyoming, Colorado, and Niew 

 Mexico. I i, , , 



. 4., Aconitum ramosum A.- Nels.,, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 8. 1899.- Pu- 

 bescent above only, obscurely glandular: stems 3-5 dm. high, more or lessi 

 biranched above: lea,ves 3-4-parted; the segments 2- orS-oleft much below 

 the middle; these dLvisions al?o incised, the leaf i(;hus appearing incisply mul- 

 tifid with linear-lanpeolate lobes: flowers in short terminal, capitate racemes, 

 blue: hood 12-16 mm. long; the beak shor,t: follicles cylindrical-oblong, 

 reticulately veined, nearly glabrous. — As yet only from northeastern Wyom^ 

 ing. ' ' ..-.,. ,' 



7. ANEMONE L. Anbmone. Windflowbr 



Brect'perennial herbs. BaSal leaves lobed, divided, or dissected, and thdse 

 of the' stem forming an involucre either near to or distant from the solitary 

 or umbellate floweirs. Sepals 4-20. Petals waating. Stamens numerous,'' 

 shorter than the sepals. Pistils- nunierou?, ' becoming dompressed'achehes,' 

 which are not long-tailed. > i : r 



Achenes densely woolly. , ■ 

 Sten> low, simply, 1-flowered, 

 From slender rootstooks .' " . , , • '^i ■ • .' 1. A. parviflora. 

 From a short erect caudez . . .' f, . . . . .2. A. lit^ophQa. 

 . Stems generally branching ;above, 1^3 dm. high; flowers mostly 

 more than 1. 

 Head of carpels'^bbose . . . , . . . .3. A. globosa'. 

 Head of carpels cylindrical 4. A. cylindric^. 



