young plants from seed will not bloom before the second 
season. 
“ This species must be regarded as a very handsome little 
plant, and very desirable on account of its blooming profusely, 
and for a long time in the autumn.” 
The society received it from Dr. Fischer, who obtained 
it from the Botanic Garden at Dorpat, and it has also found 
its way hither through France. 
Dr. Hohenacker, who first published an account of it in 
the Proceedings of the Imperial Natural History Society of 
Moscow for 1838, calls it S. Schafta of S. G. Gmelin ; but 
he does not explain the meaning of the name, which we pre- 
sume to be its country appellation. He states, however, that 
it grows naturally in rocky places, on a mountain called 
Keridach, in the district of Suwant, in the Russian province 
of Talysch, at the height of from 2500 to 4000 feet, flowering 
in October. He says that it might be mistaken for a variety 
of S. depressa, but its capsule is much larger, and its seeds 
covered with little spines instead of tubercles; and he also 
compares it with S. Vallesia, and humilis, of which the first 
has a downy capsule, and the last obscurely granulated seeds. 
