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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. 1>. azureum, 



Aconite. (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) AconUum. 

 Sepals 5, 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, showy, blue, 

 or purple, varying to white. Herbage and roots poisonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 



1. Garden 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. 



Fourpetals ofLarhspiir No. 1, 

 united into one body. 



347. Flower, &c.orWild Columbine. 

 248. A petal. ^^9. Tbi; 5 pods open- 

 ing. 250. A sepurate pod. 



Flower of Larkspur No. S. 252. Its 

 sepals and petals displayed. 



255 Its parte dis 



254. Flower of Acoi 



played l a, tbe depals ; p, ihe petals 

 et, stamens and pistils on the flower-stalk, 



