POLYANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Aconitum. 665 
by cultivation white, purple, red, or bay, (in a terminal cluster of few. 
Seeds angular, rough. E.) 
Field Larkspur. (Dolphin-flower. E.) Corn-fields. SwafFham 
Field. Ray- Lower Road between Cambridge and Gogmagog Hills. 
Relhan: with all the varieties of colour. Mr. Woodward. (Near Bury. 
Rev. Dr. Goodenough. Corn-field near Ripton, rare. Mr. Brunton. In 
a field by Pershore. Merret. Fields about Aldborough, at the Hall 
Farm. Rev. G. Crabbe. About Feltwell, near Brandon. Mr. F. Smith; 
and at Barton Bendish, and Oxburgh, Norfolk. Rev. R. Forby. Heb- 
burn Ballast Hills, Durham. In fields near the Lough, on Holy Island, 
Northumberland. Mr. Winch. In a limestone quarry near Bishopwear- 
mouth. Mr. W. Backhouse, jun. Winch Guide. In several fields near 
Blandford. Pulteney. Corn-fields at St. Leonard’s Farm, near Bedford. 
Rev. Dr. Abbot. E.) A. June—SeptA 
PENTAGYNIA. 
(ACONFTUM.t Cal. none : Pet . five, the upper one hooded : 
Ned. two, recurved, stalked, under the hood. E.) 
A. napel/lus. Upper petal arched at the back: lateral ones hairy at 
the inner side: germens three, smooth : leaves deeply five-cleft, 
cut, with linear segments, furrowed above. 
Woodv. t. 6—JDod. Pempt. 442— Ger.Em. 972— Lob. Ic. 679— Trag. Hist . 
248. 
Stem erect, (three to four or five feet high, E.) simple, leafy, clothed with 
minute close hairs, and terminating in a solitary, simple, upright cluster of 
large dark-blue Jloivers. Leaves alternate, on short stalks; nearly smooth 
on both sides, paler beneath. 
Wolf’s-bane, or Monk’s-hood. Friar’s-caps in Devon. By the 
sides of streams. By the side of the river Teme, Herefordshire; and still 
more abundantly on the banks of a brook running into that river, to all 
appearance truly wild. Rev. E. Whitehead, C.C.C. Oxon, 1819. In watery 
ground, on both sides of a brook, at Ford, near Wiveliscomb, Somerset¬ 
shire, for the course of a mile or more, a well as in other similar situa¬ 
tions in that neighbourhood, 1825. Mr. T. Clark, jun. P. June—July. 
Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
The propriety of the above interesting addition to the British Flora is further 
confirmed "by the observation of Frederick Russell, esq. by whom it was 
found in an unquestionably wild station in Devonshire, 1827. In the 
* The expressed juice of the petals, with the addition of a little alum, makes a good 
blue ink. The seeds are acrid and poisonous. When cultivated the blossoms become 
double, (and, in this case, the petals frequently increase to the exclusion of the spur. 
Few parterres can exhibit a more brilliant display than those of the finer kinds of Larkspur, 
as either derived from our native, or foreign species. E.) Sheep and goats eat it. 
Horses are not fond of it. Cows and swine refuse it. Phalcena Delphinium, lives upon 
it. Linn. (It is said likewise to constitute the favourite food of the rare and singularly 
elegant moth, and caterpillar, Chariclea Delphinii. Curt. Brit. Entom. v. 2. pi. 76. E.) 
*}* (Theophrastus derives the name from Axovig, a city of Bithynia, near which it is said to 
abound : other etymologists deduce it from uy.iov, ocxrj, a dart, savage nations poisoning 
their missiles with a preparation from certain species. E.) 
