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POPULAR FLORA. 
7. Azure L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- 
blue or white; pods erect. D. azureum. 
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. 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. 
