116 POPULAR FLORA. 
7. AzurE L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- 
blue or white; pods erect. D. azisreum. 
» Aconite. (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) Aconitum. 
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 AconrTE. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into 
linear lobes; flowers crowded. A, Nt apéllus. 
2. Witp A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate; flowers scattered, 
in summer. W. A. uncindtum. 
253 
Four petals of Larkspur No. 1, 
united into one body. 
247. Flower, &c. of Wild Columbine. 251. Flower of Larkspur No. 6. 252. Its 254. Flower of Aconite. 255. Its parte dis- 
248. Apetal. 249. The 5 pede open: sepals and petals displayed. played: 2, the sepals; p, the petals; 
ing. 250. A separate po! #¢, stamens and pistils on the flower-stalk. 
