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JASIONE perennis. 
Perennial Sheep's-bit. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNL4. (MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, Persoon syn.) 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACE®. Jussieu gen. 163. Brown prod. 1. 559. 
JASIONE. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. rotata, tubo brevissimo, laciniis 5-longis 
linearibus. Stam. 5, antheris in tubum coalitis. Stig. bifidum. Caps. 5- 
gona, 2-locularis, calyce coronata. Flores aggregati in calyce communi 
polyphyllo supra receptaculum nudum. Caules sep? simplices. Capitula 
terminalia solitaria: flores centrales sepé abortivi stigmate indiviso. Ha- 
bitus ScaBiosx. Juss. loc. cit. 166. 
J. perennis, foliis linearibus sublevibus planis obtusiusculis, Lamarck encyc. 
3. 216. illustr. 124. fig. 2. 
Jasione perennis. Persoon syn. 2. 215. Lam. et Decand. flor. franc. 3. 717. 
Sweet hort. sub. lond. 37. 
Jasione montana (£.) Willd. sp. pl. 1. 888. 
Jasione montana (8.) radice perenni. Lin. suppl. 392. 
Jasione montana. Villars dauph. 2. 670; (side Decandollei.) 
Caulis erectus simplicissimus v. de basi ramosus, in plantä hortensi glaber 
in spontaned pubescens, pedalis v. plurimim altior, infra medium foliis 
erebris vestitus. Fol. numerosa, sparsa, exatté linearia, sesquiunciam ad 2 
uncias cum dimidio longa latitudine subbilineari, obtusiuscula, integra, 
Plana, in plantá cultá subglabra, in spontaneá hispidiùs pubescentia. Capitula. 
congesta, caerulea solitaria, montana majora, pedunculis aphyllis 6-8 uncia- 
libus v. circa insidentia.  Involucrum é foliolis 12-13 planis horizontalibus 
margine acute at rarè dentatis. Lam. loc. cit.; (ex gallico versum). 
A species first distinguished from montana by the Che- 
valier de Lamarck, who observes that it not only djffers in 
being perennial instead of annual, but likewise in having 
strictly linear leaves, which neither taper downwards nor 
are waved or curled at the edge. It is not noticed in the 
late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, though stated in Sweet's 
Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis to have been cultivated in 
our gardens in 1787. Native of the South of France. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery belonging to 
Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the 
plant is cultivated in a warm border in the open ground. 
The following description is the English of an article 
of the ingenious and diligent Lamarck, in his Encyclopédie 
Botanique. 
