flowers as equalling the common Columbine in size. Never- 

 theless we are assured by genuine Caucasean specimens 

 from Mr. Prescott, by the authority of Dr. Fischer, by a 

 figure in Gmelin to which Von Bieberstein refers, and by 

 that published by De Lessert in his Icones selectee, that what 

 is now represented was intended by the description above 

 quoted. 



J. L. 



