figure was made were sent by Messrs. Backhouse in full 

 flower from the Nurseries near York in March of this year. 

 For the method of cultivation of this and other alpines, I 

 would refer the reader to their excellent annotated catalogue. 

 DesCR. A dwarf, tufted, hardy, perennial-rooted herb. 

 Stem* short, an inch to an inch and a half long, clothed with 

 narrow-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, rough-edged leaves. 

 Flowers solitary, sessile on the tips of the stems, and of about 

 the same length. Calyx tubular, with five short acute lobes. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 

 with a rather funnel-shaped tube, ten-lobed, green exter- 

 nally ; lobes within deep prussian blue, edges crenulate. 

 Ovary stipitate.- — J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Ovary: — all magnified. 



