4 . Aconltum C£rHleum minus^ five NafcVw minor. The fmall blew Helmet flower, 
The (mail blew Helmet flower rifeth up with a round grecne (hike, two or three foote high, whereon grow 
divers darke grcene fhining leaves, cut intofive partitions very deepely, each of them fomewhat cut in on the 
edges, very like unto the leaves of the greater blew Helmet, flower, but that thefe are not fo finely devided, 
and the divisions arc fomewhat broader : the top oftheftalke is divided into two or three branches, each where* 
of beareth one flower, and feldome two or three, of a very faire deepe blewifh purple colour, very like in forme 
unto the other great Helmet flower, but that the flower is (mailer, and the creftof the Helmet rifeth higher, 
then in that; after which come fmall pods like, the other,and fuch like feede : the roote is round like a Bulbous, 
big below and fmall above, and enceafeth thereby, giving fuch likerooces, with fmaller fibres thereat, then 
at the greater rootes. ' y 
Aconitum lycoElonon yr£Cox The early flowring Woolfes bane« 
The early Helmet flower or Wooftes bane .rifeth up very early in thefpring, with many thicke fhining darke 
greene leaves, cut into five divifions, and they againe fomewhat devided or cut in on the edges, but not fo fine¬ 
ly as thofe of the greater Helmet flower, neither whitifh underneath as they are, but rather, of a paler greene 
on the underfideand fhining, a3 well as the upper fide: the fhining.round grecne ftalke rifeth not fully 10 high 
as the Helmet flower, being not much above two foote high, having divers leaves thereon, like thofe below, 
butfmaller, and at the top but a few flowers, incomparifon of the other Helmet flowers, but are like unto 
them both for forme and colour, being of a moft brave, deepe blewifh purple colour: after which come three 
pods,(landing together for the moft part, z\ d no more, wherein lyeth fuch like round blackifh feede, as are in 
all the reft : the rootes are very like thofe of the greater Helmet flower, and encreafeth as much, by letting ot 
fundry fuch like heads. 
6. Aconitumceruleum Autumnale. The Harveft Helmet flower. . . 
This late flowring Helmet flower is very like alfo unto the fmaller Helmet flower, rifing as high and having 
fuch like darke greene leaves fomewhat fhining, devided in the fame manner, but fomewhat larger : the flow¬ 
ers grow in long (pikes, ofa faire blewifh purple colour, the pods and feede are like, but the roote hath one.y t 
divers blackifh firings or fibres, fet at the feverall tuftes of heads, which are not Turnep-like nor bulbous like* 
as the greater and leffer Helmet flowers are, which maketh the difference,befides the time ofthc flowring which 
is later then either of the other, that is not flow ring untill Auguft. . , 
7. Aconitumtvaximuw coma nut ante . Great Woolfes bane with abending top. 
This great Woolfes bane bath very long and (lender ftalkes, even three or foure foote high, devided at the' 
tops into fundry branches, with long fpikie heads, of very large flowers, which for the w^akenefte of t e 
ftalkes and the weight of the many flowers growing together, bow downe their heads: for the flowers are grea¬ 
ter and larger then in any other Helmet or Woolfes bane flowers,, and of a paler blewifh purple colour,, then m 
the H^lm^ flower ; the leaves alfo arfclarger 5 and more devided then.m any, except the lefler Woolfes bane.■ 
