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* EPIMEDIUM violaceum. 
Violet Epimedium. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERACE. 
EPIMEDIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 22. fol. 1906. 
$ Macroceras ; calcaribus petalorum elongatis. 
E. violaceum; foliis triternatis : foliolis cordatis sagittatisgue acuminatis cili- 
atis integerrimis, petiolorum nodis barbatis, floribus racemosis, petalis 
calcaribus subzegualibus. 
E. violaceum. Morren $ Decaisne in Ann. des Se. nat. n. s. II. 354. t. 12. A. 
Caulis 4-6 poll. longus, subflexuoso-geniculatus, teres, ad foliorum inser- 
tionem intumescens, epidermide rubro-fuscá vestitus, pube albd laxá Jfexuosá ad 
nodos crebriore pilosus. Folia triternata, petiolata; petiolus communis brevis, 
semi-pollicem longus, coloratus, partiales 2-4 poll. longi, patuli, teretes, villosi, 
virides; petioluli 14-2 /ongi. Foliola cordata, acuminata, integra; terminale 
equilaterum, 2 inferiora obliqua, lobis rotundatis vel subacuminatis ; Juniora 
colorata, margine intense purpurea, membranacea, utrinque presertim subtis 
molliter puberula, demum glabrata ; intense viridia, ciliata, basi 3-5-nervia, 
reticulato-venosa, venis primariis supernê evanescentibus. Pedunculi oppositi- 
Joli, foliis longiores, poll. 4 circiter longi, simplices, pauciffori, recti, firmi, 
teretes, glaberrimi. Flores speciosi, violacei, lin. 14 lati, pedicellati, pedicellis 
cernuts, basi bracteolatis, puberulis. Calyx 3-A-sepalus ; sepalis inaequalibus, 
2 exterioribus minoribus, ovatis viridibus rubro-coloratis. Petala ovata-lance- 
olata, qualia, calycinis foliolis sub triplô longiora, margine subsinuosa, rubro- 
violacea, nectariis paul breviora. Nectaria 4, petalis longitudine subagualia, 
longè calcarata, attenuata, assurgentia, intensè violacea, Stamina 4, ovario 
sublongiora, pistillo breviora; filamenta brevia, crassiuscula, glaberrima; an- 
there lineares, oblonga, fave. Stylus sublateralis, ovario subequalis, apice 
subincrassatus, glaberrimus ; stigmate discoideo plano coronatus. Ovarium 
ovoideum, glaberrimum, viride, pluriovulatum. Morren & Decaisne 1. c. 
The little dingy Epimedium alpinum, known only in the 
gardens of Botanists, gave no promise of its representing a 
line of beautiful herbaceous plants, and for a long time it 
was supposed to be the only one of its race. The researches 
* Botanical Register, vol. 22. fol. 1906. 
August, 1849. Q 
