ACONITUM. 



be of no moment. Thejiem is round and fmooth. Leaves 

 fmooth ; their wedge-like lobes (harply pinnatifid. Clujler 

 lax, with fome axillary branches below. Stalks ereft, 

 fmootli. Hood near an inch and a half long, obtufe, even, 

 bent forward with a (lightly recurved, notched, beak ; its 

 clanu longer than the large round -wings. Cermens five, 

 fmooth. 



Seft. J. Anahates. 



Flowers blue or white ; hood convex. Clufter lax. 

 Stem twining, climbing. 



21. A. eriojlemon. Hairy -threaded Monk's-hood. De 

 Cand. n. 21. ( " A. volubilc ; Koelle Aeon. 21, but not of 

 Willdenow." De C.) — Stem twining, fomewhat downy 

 with clofe hairs. Footftalks naked. Leaves in three or five 

 deep, pinnatifid lobes, with lanceolate fegments. Clufter 

 lax. Germens two or three, very fmooth. Stamens hairy. 

 — Gathered by Koelle in Siberia ; cultivated at Montpellier. 

 Stem round, its fine clofe hairs fcarcely vifible with a 

 microfcope. Leaves fmooth, with diftant, oblong, acute 

 fegments. Upper tranches flowering at their extremities. 

 Lower iraSeas in three or five divifions ; upper oblong, 

 undivided ; partial ones linear. Stalis downy. Flowers 

 pale blue, hardly at all downy ; hood gradually tapering 

 into an acute beak, with a fpace between it and the wings, 

 which are fringed, but nearly or quite fmooth on their 

 infide. FilameniMhmy ! De Candolle. 



22. A., ciliare. Fringed Monk's-hood. De Cand. n. 22. 

 (A. volubile ; Willd. n. 1 1, but not of Koelle. Ait. n. 9. 

 Donn Cant. ed. 5. 135.) — Stem twining, clothed with 

 fpreading hairs. Footftalks fringed. Leaves in three or 

 five deep pinnatifid lobes, with hnear-lanceolate fegments. 

 Clufter lax. Germens five or more. — Native of woods in 

 Siberia. We received a fpecimen in flower, in Sept. 1801, 

 from the rich garden of the late Rev. Mr. Watts, of Aftiill, 

 Norfolk. Thejlem is round, (lender, purplifti, fix feet high, 

 varying in its degree of downinefs. Leaves in fize and 

 figure not unlike Malva mofchata. Clujler branched, lax. 

 Flowers of a middle fize, rather light blue, downy ; hood 

 convex, rounded, with a beak in front ; Jpurs hooked, with 

 an obtufe, inverfely heart -ftiaped, hp. Germens five or fix, 

 elliptic-oblong, fmooth. Stamens fmooth. Our fpecimen 

 rather anfwers to the more hairy variety of De Candolle, 

 which he fufpefted might pro»e a diftinft fpecies ; we have 

 feen no other, and can therefore form no opinion. 



23. A. tortuofum. Twifted Monk's-hood. Willd. Enum. 

 576. DeCand. n. 23. (A. n. 8 ; Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 437 ? 

 A. coma inflexa, fohis latioribus ; Tourn. Inft. 425 ?) — 

 Stem twining, fmooth, as well as the footftalks. Leaves in 

 three deep, ovate, pointed, coarfely and deeply toothed lobes. 

 Clufter lax. Germens two or three, quite fmooth, as well 

 as the ftamens — Seen in a cultivated ftate only, by Will- 

 denow and De Candolle, who knew not whence it came. 

 Thejlem rifes to the height of fix or feven feet, branching, 

 round, and fmooth. Leaves fmooth ; their lobes wedge- 

 Ihaped at the bafe ; the lateral ones deeply cloven. Flower- 



Jlalks downy. Lower hraReas three-cleft ; partial ones awl- 

 ftiaped, placed about half way up each ftalk. Flowers 

 fmooth, pale blue ; hood convex, gradually tapering into an 

 acute beak. The figure of Matthiolus expreftes the habit, 

 but may probably belong to fonre other fpecies. De Can- 

 Aolle. Indeed many of that author's figures are curved, 

 evidently to accommodate diem to the dimenfions of the 

 wooden block- 



24. A. glabrum. Smooth Twining Monk's-hood. De 



Cand. n. 24 Stem twining, fmooth like the footftalks. 



Leaves in five deep, lanceolate, wedge-ftiapcd, coarfely and 

 deeply toothed lobes. Clufter lax. Hood ftalked, elon- 



gated, conical, with a long, ereft, cloven beak. — Native 

 country unknown. Defcribed from the herbarium of Pro- 

 felTor Desfontaines. The whole herb is fmooth. The 

 Jlowers are pale blue, and remarkable for the long linear 

 lobes which terminate the leak, and ftanding eredl, are 

 nearly on a level with the top of the hoed, which appears to 

 be the great peculiarity of this little-known fpecies. 



25. A. uncinatum. American Monk's-hood. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 750. Willd. n. 15. Ait. n. 12. Purfti n. I. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1 119. De Cand. n. 25. — Stem fomewhat twining, 

 nightly downy. Footftalks fmooth. Leaves abrupt at the 

 bafe ; lobes three or five, acute, with three teeth. Clufter 

 lax. Hood ftalked, elongated, convex. — In fwamps, and 

 by the fides of rivulets, on the high mountains of Virginia 

 and Carolina, flowering in June and July. Flowers large, 

 of a fine blue, and fingular ftrufture. Purjh. Stem round, 

 fomewhat branched, minutely downy. Footjlalks fmooth, 

 round, with a longitudinal furrow. Leaves coriaceous, 

 fmooth, dark-green, lobed only about half down ; lobes 

 three-ribbed. Lower Jlalks of the clujler long and divided ; 

 upper fimple and crowded ; all downy in their upper part. 

 BraSeas two, oblong, not far from the jlowers, which arc 

 large, of a rich violet purple ; hood tapering into a (harp 

 beak ; wings orbicular, hairy rather than fringed. Germens 

 three to five, downy. Such is our Linnsean fpecimen, from 

 J. Bartram. 



M. De CandoUe faw in the herbarium of Michaux, 

 mixed with the above, fpecimens, whofe hood was twice as 

 long, almoft conical, without any hook or beak. This he 

 confiders as the uncinatum of that author, Fl. Boreal. -Amcr. 

 V. I. 315, and pofiibly a diftinft fpecies. 



Mr. Purfti fays, — " On the foot of the Peaks of Otter, 

 and about the fweet fprings, another fpecies occurs, with 

 fmaller_y?owfrj', and a climbing Jlcm which fometimes attains 

 the height of nine feet ; but unfortunately I have no mate- 

 rials at prefent to give a correft defcription thereof." 



Hence it appears that the hiftory of this long-eftabli(hed 

 genus is not yet complete. M. De Candolle enumerates 

 three fpecies, of which he had not fiifficient information to 

 define them correftly. Thefe are, 



26. A. delphinifolium, of which there arc three varieties. 

 I. Americanum, found by David Nelfon, in Sledge (not 

 Hodge) ifland, with an ereiXjiem, from fix to twenty inches 

 high, downy upwards ; leaves like Delphinium penfagynum, 

 fmooth, in numerous pinnatifid fegments ; and blue racemofe 



Jloivers, whofe hoodii convex, acute at the fummit. 2. Sibi- 

 ricum, gathered in Siberia by Pallas, has Xzrger Jlowers, with 

 «fi!?ar;Vj but half the length of the hood. 3. Kamtchalicum, 

 has from three to fix rather fcattered, fomewhat fmaller, 



jlowers, and rather longer neSaries. Root of tufted fibres. 

 De Cand. 



27. K.lnjlorum. (A.grandiflorum; FifcherHort.Gorenk. 

 1808. 77.) — Native of the Altai mountains. 7?ao; tuberous, 

 ovate, the fize of a pea. Stem four inches high, (lender, 

 finely downy at the fummit. Leaves in five deep, palmate 

 fegments, with linear acute lobes ; the lowermoft on long 

 ftalks. Flowers two, terminal, nearly feflile, pale blue ; 

 hood convex, externally downy at the back, tapering into 

 an acute beak ; wings obovate, or roundilh, fmooth. Sta- 

 mens fmooth. Germens three, villous. Nedaries hooked, 

 obtufe, with very minute lips. De Cand. 



28. A. maximum. Pallas herb. — Native of Kamtchatka. 

 Stem fix feet high, ereft, round, fmooth. Leaves fmooth, 

 ftalked, wedge -ftiaped at the bafe, in three or five dilated, 

 wedge-fhaped, five-cleft lobes. Clujler (hort, of eight or 

 ten ■pAe-hiut jlowers , on Aovmy Jlalks, with a convex acute 

 hood, like that of delphinijolium, but fmaller. De Cand. 



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