ACONITUM 



BUTTEBOUP OBDEB 



ACONITUM 163 



native of North America. Flowers pale 

 bluish-purple ia June. 

 Culture Sc. as above. 



A. eminens. —A European species 2-4 

 ft. high, producing its blue flowers in June 

 on erect or spreading downy stalks. 

 Culture do. as above. 



A. gracile. — A slender-stemmed 

 Italian species about 2 ft. high, with 

 large pale blue or violet flowers in June. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. Halleri. — A straight-stemmed 

 branched plant, 4-6 ft. high, from 

 Switzerland, with dense violet flowers 

 in June. The variety hicolor has white 

 flowers variegated with blue. 

 CuUti/re dc. as above. 



A. japonicum. — A beautiful Japanese 

 species 2-6 ft. high, with large, flesh- 

 coloured flowers, produced from July to 

 September. The variety cceruleum has 

 deep blue flowers. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. Lycoctonum (Trvs Wolfs Bcme). 

 A native of Europe, with slender up- 

 right stems 4-6 ft. high. The rather 

 large creamy yellow flowers are borne on 

 more or less downy and branched racemes 

 about July and August. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. Napellus (Cormnon MonVs Hood). 

 A very handsome and at the same time 

 virulently poisonous plant, with slightly 

 pubescent stems, 3-4 ft. high. It is found 

 wild in England in shady places near 

 streams, and has black spindle-shaped 

 roots, and 5-7 -parted leaves, with narrow 

 pointed segments, the upper ones often 

 sessile ; stalks dilated at the base. The 

 dark blue hooded flowers are borne on 

 racemes 1-2 ft. long from July to 

 September. 



There are a large number of varieties 

 ■of this species, differing chiefly in the 

 shades of colour. One with whitish 

 flowers is very interesting. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. ochroleucura {A. NuttalU ; A. palU- 

 dwm). — A native of Eussia, 2-4 ft. high, 

 producing its large cream-coloured flowers 

 about July. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. ottonianum. — A plant 2-4 ft. high, 

 from the Carpathian Mountains. The blue 



flowers variegated with white appear in 

 July and August. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. paniculatum {A. hebegynum). — A 

 native of Prance and Switzerland, 2-3 ft. 

 high. The large violet flowers appear 

 from June to September on a somewhat 

 downy, much-branched, terminal panicle. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. pyrenaicum. — A Pyrenean species 

 2 ft. high, with long-stalked leaves, 

 smooth above, rather hairy beneath, and 

 producing its large yellow flowers in June. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. rostratum (A. alpinum). — A Swiss 

 plant 1-2 ft. high, with violet flowers 

 produced in June. 



Culture do. as above. 



A. rubicundura. — A Siberian perennial 

 about 3 ft. high, with very deep green 

 foUage, and purplish flowers tinged with 

 yeUow, produced in July and August. 

 Closely related to A. vuVparia. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. tauricum {A. pUcatum). — A native 

 of Germany 8-4 ft. high, with dense 

 racemes of deep blue flowers appearing in 

 June. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. uncinatum. — A species 4-8 ft. high, 

 from N. America, having branches arising 

 from the axUs of the trapeziform, pin- 

 nately lobed leaves. The large lilac 

 flowers appear in July, and have a some- 

 what spiral spur. 



Cultv/re dc. as above. 



A. variegatum. — A handsome Euro- 

 pean species 1-6 ft. high, with glistening 

 deeply divided leaves. The large blue 

 flowers appear in July and August, and 

 are variegated with white. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. vulparia(yl. lupicidum). — Foxbane. 

 A well-known European plant 1-3 ft. 

 high, with 3-5-lobed, ciliated leaves. The 

 psde yellow flowers are borne on crowded 

 racemes about July. 



There are several varieties, among 

 which may be mentione'd ca/rpaticum, 

 from the Carpathian Mountains, with lurid 

 flowers sometimes variegated with yellow ; 

 and septentrionale, from Siberia, with 

 reddish-lilac or olaret-coloinred flowers 

 produced in August and September. 



Culture dc. as above. 



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