ACONI TUM VARIEGA'TUM. 
VARIEGATED ACONITUM. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. • TRIGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACE^E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
5 feet. 
June, Auj^. 
Perennial. 
in 1597. 
No. 629. 
The generic name, Aconitum, has been referred 
to several Greek words for its origin. To what we 
stated under two species of Aconite, already pub- 
lished, we may add, that Theophrastus mentions the 
plant as having derived its name from aconis, a 
city of Bithynia, where it grew plentifully. 
The Aconite is a plant of classic renown, having 
been fabled as springing from the foam of Cerbe- 
rus, when Hercules, in the execution of his twelfth 
labour, dragged the three -headed monster from the 
regions of Pluto. 
Several species of Aconite possess much beauty — 
none more than the variegatum. It has a light- 
ness and elegance which does not belong to its con- 
geners. Several varieties of it occur — some of 
them l.aving flowers which are nowise variegated, 
but entirely blue or white. The upright inflexible 
growth of this and many other species of Aconite, 
renders them desirable ornaments for those gardens, 
in which tying up is unfashionable ! 
Aconitum variegatum yields abundance of seeds, 
and from these increase may be obtained : or its 
roots may be divided at the usual seasons. 
158 Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 61. 
