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POPULAR FLORA. 



7. Azure L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky 

 blue cr white; pods erect. D. azureum. 



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 voots poisonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 



1. Garden Aconite. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into 



linear lobes ; flowers crowded. -4. Napellus. 



2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate; flowers scsttered, 



in summer. W. A. uncinatum. 



Pour petals of Larkspur No. 1 

 united into out body. 



347. Flower, &c. ofWUd Columbine. 

 248. A petal. 249. The 5 puda opan- 

 in|f. 250. A separate pod. 



251. Flower of Larkspur Nn. 6. 



BepaU and petals displayed. 



2-54. Flower of Aconite. 255 Its parts di* 

 played; a, the sepals ; p, the petals r 

 at, Btameni and pistils on the flower-etaSk. 



