land, feems to be a diftin& {pecies with quinguifid corollas and 
five ftamens. , eas 3 
~ In Jacguin’s figure of the European variety, the fegments 
of the calyx are more equal, blunt, and fhort; and Scopotr 
defcribes four ne€tariferous glands at the bafe of the germ, | 
which we could not difcover in our plant; the American 
variety has broader leaves and larger flowers. 
In this the leaves are fubconnate, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
keeled underneath, the edges rolled. back; Peduncles long,’ 
-angular, and hollow; Calyx four-cornered, alternate feg- 
ments longer, more acuminate, fharper keeled; Tube of 
‘the corofla veined in ftripes, longer than the calyx: limb 
_ four-cleft: fegments twifted, oblong, obtufe, deeply fringed at 
the fides. Siamens 4: filaments flat, concave, diftin& but by - 
approximation forming a tube round the germ, inferted into 
the bafe of the corolla: Anthers yellow, incumbent... Germ 
raifed ona pedicel, fquarifh, twifted, unilocular: feeds very 
many. Style hardly any: ftigmas orbiculate, fo as to give the 
appearance of the flower’s being monogynous, but when more 
carefully. examined is found to-be bipartite, Said by Panuas 
to be biennial; but is really perennial; for although the 
flowering plant. appears always to perifh, yet it throws up a 
fucceffion of young ones, at a confiderable diftance from the 
parent, clofe to the edge’ of the pot; hence it feems to be 
one of thofe plants which are continually fhifting their place 
of growth, as if the fame earth could not fora fucceffion of 
years fupply them neceffary nourifhment, Flowers in Autumn. 
Raifed from Siberian feeds by Mr. Lopprpces, Nurfery- 
man at Hackney. Is hardy, and requires a treatment fimilar 
to other alpine plants, ee 7 
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