. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Ranunculacea:—Aconitjim. 19 13. ACONITUM. Erect perennial poisonous herbs with palmately divided leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles, blue, purple, yellowish, or white. Sepals 5, the dorsal or upper one helmet-shaped, the two lateral broader than the two anterior. Petals 5, small, the two upper with long claws hooded at the tip ; the three inferior s
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Ranunculacea:—Aconitjim. 19 13. ACONITUM. Erect perennial poisonous herbs with palmately divided leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles, blue, purple, yellowish, or white. Sepals 5, the dorsal or upper one helmet-shaped, the two lateral broader than the two anterior. Petals 5, small, the two upper with long claws hooded at the tip ; the three inferior smaller or undeveloped. Carpels 3 to 5, sessile, free, many-seeded. The classical name. There are about twenty species, natives of the mountains of the north tempe- rate zone. 1. A. Kajpellus (fig. 16).—Common Monkshood. This is found in almost every old cottage garden. The typical form has blue flowers, but there are several varie- ties with white and blue flowers, differing in size and form. A widely distributed plant throughout temperate Europe and Asia. 2. A. Lycoctomtm. Wolfsbane.—Very distinct from the foregoing, attaining a height of 6 or 7 feet, having large deeply divided leaves and yellowish flowers. Like the last, a Summer-flowering plant. Native of the South of Europe. ZanthorJitza apiifdlia, Yellow-root, is a dwarf shrubby plant from North America, with pinnate or bipinnate leaves and panieled racemes of drooping dull purple regidar flowers. Sepals 5. Petals 5, smaller than the sepals, clawed. Hydrastis Canadensis, Orange-root, is an allied herbaceous perennial with one large lobed radical leaf and two smaller ones on the flower-scape, which bears one small greenish flower destitute of petals. Actmi spicCda, Baneberry, is a native plant of this affinity. It is a perennial, with^' AcomtumNapdius. '^ jr ' (1 iiat. size.) ternately divided leaves and small racemose flower succeeded by a several-seeded bluish-black berry. North of England, and northern temper
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