THE ROQT OF ACONITUM NAPELLUS

[A, 260.] ‘The small figure at the right shows a cro section of the rhizome. tonum found in northern Europe, the leaves of which are eaten as a pot-herb, while the root is poisonous. Gi 248, 816.J—A. sherkanium. A variety of A. cammarwm. [O. Revell (A, 328). —A, sinense [Paxton]. Chinese aconite; a variety of A. chinense. [A, 248: B, 5.|—A. spicatum. A variety of A. napellus. [O. Reveil (A, 328).] —A, stoerckeanum, A. stoerckianum, A. stürekianum, A. stérki: m [Reichenbach]. Ger., Stérck's (oder gro er blauer) Sturmhut, Storck’s aconite, an’ Austrian species with leaves divided into broadly wedge-shaped segments, and a thin, conical rhizome, with the pith pentagonal in ero -section, [A, 248; B, 33.) This is supposed to be the species employed by Baron Stérek, who introduced aconite into medicine in the eighteenth century; but others think that he used A. neomontanum.— A. strictum.’ A variety of A. napellus. [P. Rayer (A, 332).]—A. taurieum. An intensely acrid species found in Tauria [A, 248, Christ is on (A, 816).J—A. uncinatum [Linnæus]. Syn.: À. scan’ dens [Muhlenberg]. American aconite; a species found sparingly in the Alleghany Mcuntains and elsewhere in the Middle States,