ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 



103 



ACOXITUM. Monkshood, or Wolfsbane. 



Erect growing plants, with palmately divided foliage. Flowers in racemes, blue, 

 purple, yellowish or white. 



A. Antliora. Yellow, tinged with green ; 15 inches. July. 



A. Californicum. Califoknia Monkshood. Pale blue, veined with pur- 

 ple ; robust ; 2 to .S feet. September to October. 



A. decorum. Soft blue. 



J\.. o aponicuni. Japan Monkshood. Deep blue ; 18 inches. August. 



A. laxifloruni, Loose-flowebed Monkshood. Light blue, veined with pur- 

 ple : 2 to 3 feet. September. 



A. lel)eg'inuni. White, bordered with blue. 



A. Xapellus. Common Monkshood. Pale azure, tipped with yellow ; 18 in- 

 ches. June. 



A. paniculatuni. Azure, tinged with yellow ; 18 inches. Aiigust. 



A. septentrionale. Purplish-blue, edged yellow ; 18 inches. August. 



A. sinensis Sieboldii. Azure blue ; 18 inches. September. 



A. tenuilblium. Deep azure ; 12 inches. July. 



A. versicolor. Blue and whits; 

 18 inches. July and August. 



ACORUS. Sword Grass. 



Marshy plants of easy culture, 



A. varieg'ata. Variegated 

 SwoKD Grass. Distinct white striped 

 foliage. 



ACT,^A. Baneberrv. 



A. raceniosa. Spikes of white 

 flowers ; 2 feet. June and July. 



A. spicata var. rubra. Red 



Baneberey. White flowering, red- 

 berried ; 1 foot. 



ADONIS. 



A. vernalis. A handsome spe- 

 cies, with finely divided leaves, and 

 growing about a fc^t high. Flowers 

 bright yellow about 2 inches in diame- 

 ter. 50c. 



AIR A, 



A. foliis variegatis. A dis- 

 tinct yellow striped grass. One of 

 the finest hardy grasses. 

 AXEMOXE. 



AJLGA. 



Pretty dwarf plants. 

 A. pjT.*aniidalis. Fine blue flowers : 3 inches. 



A3ISOXIA. 



Native plants with alternate leaves and terminal panicles of pale blue flowers. 

 A. salicifolia. Willow-leaved Amsonia. Pale blue, star-shaped flowers. 



AXCHUSA. Bugloss. 



Tall plants with coarse large leaves. 



A. capensis. Large and smooth foliage ; fine blue flov/er? ^\dth a white 

 center. 1 foot. 



May and June. 



