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the transitional conditions are normal, and characteristic of the flowers 

 in question. 



Acanthus. — ^,This plant was alluded to as the one the foliage of 

 which suggested the form of the Corinthian capital to pillars, so often 

 employed in architecture. It is a common plant of South Europe, 

 frequently seen by roadsides &c. in Malta. 



AcoNiTUM Napellus. — This was referred to as being the most 

 deadly poisonous of our British wild flowers, whole families having 

 died through eating the root for Horseradish. Though the form of the 

 root is conical and the colour dark brown, while that of the Horseradish 

 is ^ja/(3 and the shape cylindrical, yet in the limited space of a cottage 

 garden both are often grown near to each other,* the Aconite being an 

 old-fashioned garden flower. The result is that in winter the one has 

 been dug up for the other and eaten with fatal^i^sults. 



In oi'clev to avoid catastrophes the reader is referred to the present writer's 

 roisonous Plants (S.P.C.K.). 



