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RaNUNCULUS PARNASSIFOLIUS, -PARNASSIA- 
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Potyanpria Pozycynta. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cal. deciduns 5-phyllus (varius 3-phyllus). Perala 5 (varius 
2, 3, aut.8) intra ungues {quamula vel poro mellifero, Stylé 
periiftentes. Sem. incruftata erefla. : 
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| RANUNCULUS parnafffolins foliis fabovatis nervofis Vineatis_ 
integerrimis petiolatis, floribus umbellatis. 
Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 515¢ 
: _ Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 265. eS 
RANUNCULUS montanus graminis parnaffi folio. Tournef. 
Inft. 286. 
In the autumn of 1796, I received roots of this and feveral 
other rare and curious Alpine plants from Mr. Neckar DI 
Saussure, at Geneva, and have been fo fortunate as to bring 
the prefent plant to flower with me early in the fummer 0 : 
1797, and to fhew figns of ripening fome of its feeds: it grew 
with me in a {mall pot of loam and bog-earth, fheltered durin 
-the winter inaframe. ==, a aes Lee 
Mr. Arron* informs us, that this fpecies was introduced by 
Meffrs. Kennepy and Les, in 176g, but there is no mentio 
made of its. flowering; fmall indeed is, we believe, the number 
of Botanilts who have feen this plant in flower, as neither Lin= 
n&us, Murray, or Guetin, refer to any figure of it; this 
has proved an additional inducement for us not to let the pre- 
fent opportunity flip’ of prefenting to the botanical world 4 
figure of this rare and precious jewel of the Alps. 
$s; Hort. Kew. 
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