116 
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 t 
Aconite# (Monkshood, Wolfsbane.) Acoriitum. 
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 Aconite. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into 
linear lobes ; flowers crowded. A. Napellus. 
2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate; flowers scattered, 
in summer. W. A. uncinatum. 
247. Flower, &c. of Wild Columbine. 251. Flower of Larkspur No. 6. 252. Its 
248. A petal. 249. The 5 pods open- sepals and petals displayed, 
ing. 250. A separate pod. 
254 
254. Flower of Aconite. 255. Its parts dis- 
played : s, the sepals; p, the petals- 
st, stamens and pistils on the flower-stalk. 
