filaments. These are, however, all differences of degree, 
and I cannot but expect that S. arachnoidewm and Mog- 
gridgei will prove to be local forms of one species, of which 
the latter is the much handsomer plant. The specimen here 
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in September, 1881, 
and was received under the name it bears from Mr. De Smet. 
It is a native, I believe, of the Maritime Alps. 
Desor. Rosettes two inches in diameter, of many (about 
one hundred) leaves, of which the outer are spreading or 
recurved, the inner erect, all connected by a web of white 
hairs proceeding from their tips. Leaves three-fourths of 
an inch long, elongate-cuneate or oblanceolate, green, 
glabrous, with minutely ciliate margins and acute tips. 
Flowering-stems a span high, stout, leafy, and, as well as 
the cauline leaves and inflorescence, clothed with glandular 
pubescence. Lower cauline leaves oblanceolate, three-fourths 
of an inch long, suberect, ciliate, tips bearded, pale green 
and reddish; upper more oblong. Oyme three to four 
times forked, with spreading branches; bracts linear-oblong, 
green, fleshy. Flowers three-fourths of an inch in diameter, 
ten- to twelve-merous. Calyx cylindrically cup-shaped, 
glandular-pubescent; sepals linear, obtuse. Petals twice 
as long as the sepals, spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, 
apiculate. Stamens half as long as the petals, filaments 
bright red, glabrous; anthers shortly oblong, purple, with 
yellow pollen. Hypogynous glands minute, square. Ovaries 
lanceolate, glandular-pubescent, with suberect styles more 
than half their own length.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, stamens ; 3, ovaries :—all enlarged. 
sag: pata 
