Tab. 5853. 

 ERITRICHIUM nanum. 



Dwarf Alpine Eritrichium. 



Nat. Ord. Borragine^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, fauce fornicibus 

 parvis obtusis olausa. Genitalia inclusa. Nuculm 4, triquetral, prope basin 

 lateraliter adfixse, basi imperforatae, areola insertionis sublaterali minuta, 

 punctiformi, antice plana?, angulis lgevibus aut rarius crenatis. — Herbae 

 pier -unique annua, regionibus temperatis frigidisque hemispheric borealis incola. 

 Folia integra, scepius alterna. Flore racemoso-spicati, ebracteati, scepe minimi, 

 raeemis lateralibus aut ex axilla folii. Corolla scepius alba aut cairulea. DC. 

 Prod., v. x. p. 122. 



Eritrichium nanum ; humile, dense casspitosum, pilis longis sericeis cano- 

 sericeum, foliis densissiine confertis obtusis obovato-oblongis sessilibus, 

 floribus breviter racemosis v. ad apices ramulorum subsolitariis et 

 subsessilibus, calycis lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis, corolla? tubum aequan- 

 tibus, corollas intense azurese lobis orbiculatis sinubus appendiculatis, 

 nuculis ovatis ad angulos laterales pectinatis. 



Eritrichium nanum, Schrad. Diss. Asperif. in Comm. Goett. v. iv. p. 186 ; 

 Koch. Fl. Germ. p. 505; A. DC. in DC. Prod. v. x. p. 124; Reichb. 

 Fl. Germ. t. 1325. 



Myosotis nana, Vill. Dauph. v. ii. p. 459, t. 13. 



To the skill and energy of Mr. Backhouse of York, is due 

 the credit of being the first to rear to perfection the most 

 brilliant of all of those diminutive alpine gems, which 

 inhabit the loftiest summits of the European mountains. 

 In intensity of colour the blue of Eritrichium nanum is 

 equalled only by that of the Alpine gentians, whilst it is of 

 a much more azure hue than any of these, approaching most 

 nearly to the deepest blue of the sky, at a point of the 

 heavens opposite the sun's position, as seen on a cloudless 



august 1st, 1870. 



