.lanu/tTY 1st 188%.
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ACONITUM Napellus.
Common Wolfs-bane or Monk's-hood.
P O L Y A N D R IA Pentagynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. none. Pet. 5, the upper one
hooded. Nect. 2 on long stalks,, recurved. Caps.
3—5.
Spec. Char. 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. Sm.
Syn. Aconitum Napellus. Linn. Sp. PI. 751. Willd.
v. 2. 1235. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 3. 31. v. 4. 269.
Hook. Brit. FI. ed.2.260. Woodv.M.t. 6. Purt.
v. 3. 47. note. “ Ser. Aeon. 1 52./. 41.”
Aconitum vulgare. DeCand. ffyst. v. 1. 371.
Napellus verus caeruleus. Ger. Em. 972. ƒ. 3.
HXP HIS hardy perennial was, according to Gerarde, “ universally
known in our London gardens and elsewhere”
nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, and probably
might have been cultivated long before. It is therefore by
no means wonderful that it should have naturalized itself
in different parts of England; in which state it attracted
the attention of the Rev. Edward Whitehead in 1819 by
the side of the river Teme in Herefordshire, and more
abundantly on the banks of a brook running into that river.
In the following year it was discovered by Mr. Thomas
Clark, jun., very abundantly on the banks of a stream at
Ford, near Wiveliscombe, in Somersetshire, where it continues
along the stream at intervals to Milverton, a distance