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blue, with lower petals also entire or nearly so ; the mostly downy leaves have 

 fewer and lanceolate or wedge-lanceolate divisions ; is now much mixed and 

 crossed with others : summer. 



D. azureum. Azure L. Wild S. & W., often downy, l°-3° high, wiih 

 narrow linear divisions to the leaves, and a spike-like raceme of rather small, 

 azure, pale-blue, or sometimes white flowers, in spring ; sepals and 2-cleft lower 

 petals oblong. ' Var. with full-double flowers in gardens : summer. 



D. trieorne, Dwarf Wild L. Open woods from Penn. W. & S. : 

 about 1"* high from a branched tuberous root ; has broader linear lobes to the 

 leaves, and a loose raceme of few or several rather large showy flowers, deep 

 blue or sometimes white, in spring ; sepals and cleft lower petals oblong ; pods 

 strongly diverging. 



D. exalt&tum, Tall Wild L., Is the wild species (from Penn. W. & S.) 

 most resembling the next, 3° -5° high, but the less handsome flowers and 

 panicled racemes hoary or downy : fl. summer. 



D. eld:tuin, Bee Larkspur. Cult, from Eu. : 3° - 6"^ high, with broad 

 leaves 5 - 7-cleft beyond the middle, and the divisions cut into sharp lobes or 

 teeth ; many flowers (in summer) in a long wand-like raceme, blue or pui;plish ; 

 the 2-cleft lower petals prominently yellowish-bearded in the common garden 

 form. There are many varieties and mixtures with other species, some double- 

 flowered. 



19. ACONiTUM, ACONITE, WOLESBANE, MONKSHOOD. (An- 

 cient name. ) 1|. Koot thick, tuberous or tnrnip-sliaped, a virulent poison 

 and medicine. Leaves palmately divided or cleft and cut-lobed. Flowers 

 showy : the large upper sepal from its shape is called the casque or helmet. 

 Under it are two long-stalUed queer little bodies which answer for petals. 

 See Lessons, p. 92, fig. 185, 186, 193. The following are all cult, from Eu. 

 for ornament, except the first : fl. summer. 



A. uncinitum, Wild A. or Monkshood. Stem slender, 3° - 5°, erect, 

 but bending over above, as if inclined to climb ; leaves cleft or parted into 

 3-5 ovate or wedge-lanceolate cut-toothed lobes ; flowers loosely panicled, blue ; 

 the roundish helmet nearly as broad as high, its pointed visor turned down. 

 Low grounds, from Penn. S. & W. 



A. varieg&ituin. Variegated A. Erect ; leaves divided to the base 

 into rather broad-lobed and cut divisions ; flowers in a loose panicle or raceme, 

 blue and often variegated with white or whitish ; the helmet considerably higher 

 than wide, its top curved fonvard, its pointed visor ascending or horizontal. 



A. Kapellus, True Monkshood or Officinal Aconite. Erect, 

 from a turnip-shaped root ; leaves divided to the base and then 2-3 times cleft 

 into linear lobes ; flowers crowded in a close raceme, blue (also a white variety) ; 

 helmet broad and low. 



A. Anth.ora, a low species, with very finely divided leaves, and crowded 

 yellow flowers, the broad helmet rather high, occurs in some old gardens. 



20. P-SiONIA, P^ONY. (Ancient name, after a Greek physician, Pceen.) 

 11 Well-known large-flowered ornamental plants, cult, from the Old World. 

 Leaves temately decompound. Roots thickened below. 



* Herbs, mth single-Jioujered stems, in spring, and downy pods, 



P. officinalis, Common P. Very smooth, and with large coarsely di- 

 vided green leaves ; the great flowers red, white, &c., single or very double. 



P. peregrlna, of Eu., in the gardens called P. parodoxa, has leaves 

 glaucous ana more or less downy beneath, and smaller flowers than the last, 

 rose-red, &c., generally full double, and petals cut and fringed. 



P. tenuifolia, Slender-leaved P. of Siberia, is low, with early crimson- 

 red flowers, and narrow linear divisions to the leaves. 



* » Herbs, mth stveral-flowered stems, in summer, and smooth pods. 



P. albifl6ra, White-fl. or Fragrant P., or Chinf.se P. Very smooth 

 about 3° high, with bright green foliage, and white or rose-colored, often sweet- 

 scented, rather small flowers, single, also double, and with purole varieties. 

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