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POPULAR FLORA. 
7. Azure L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, skv 
blue cr white ; pods erect. D. aziireum. 
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 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. Nnpellus. 
2. Wild A Stem weak and bending, as if to climb; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate ; flowers scattered, 
in summer. W. A. uncinatum. 
251 
253 
Four petals of Larkspur No. 1, 
united into one body. 
347 
252 
251. Flower of Larkspur No. 6. 252. Its 
sepals and petals displayed. 
254 
254. Flower of Aconite. 255 Its parts dis 
played : s , the sepals; the petals 
st , stamens and pistils on the flower-stalk 
