. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 116 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.) Acoriitum. 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 elaw, standing under the hood. Pods as in Larkspur. — Flowers in racemes or panicles, showy, blue, or purple, varying to white. Herbage and ro
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 116 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.) Acoriitum. 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 elaw, 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. 250 249 247. Flower, &c. of Wild Columbine. 248. A petal. 249. The 5 pods open- ing. 250. A separate pod. 251. Flower of Larkspur No. 6. 252. Its sepal* and petals displayed. 254. Flower of Aconite. 255 Its parts dis- played : s, the sepals ; p, the petals ; st, stamens and pistils on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York, Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & co. ; Chicago, S. C. Griggs & co.
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