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SOLDANELLA ALPINA. ALPINE SoLDANELLA. 
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CAt/} and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia. 
Generic Character. 
Corolla campanulata, lacero-mukifida. Cap/, l-locularis, apice 
multidentata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
SOLDANELLA alpina. Lin. Sy/l. Vegetal, p. 194. 
SOLDANELLA alpina rotundifolia. Bauh. Pin. 295. 
Of this genus there is at prefent only one known fpecies, the 
alpina here figured, which is a native of Germany, and, as its 
name imports, an alpine plant 
Its bloffoms are bell-fhaped, of a delicate blue colour, 
fometimes white, and ftrikingly fringed on the edge. 
It flowers ufually in March, in the: open ground ; requires, 
as molt alpine plants do, (hade and moiflure in the fummer, 
and the fhelter of a frame, in lieu of its more natural covering 
fnow, in the winter ; hence it is found to fucceed beft in a 
northern afpeQ. : will thrive in an open border, but is more 
commonly kept in pots. 
May be increafed by parting its roots early in autumn. 
