fame this year the leaves are of a deep green colour, with 

 comparatively few hairs; nor are they in all fpecimens equally 

 obtufe at the point; thofe in the one from which our drawing 

 was taken being much more acute than in Mr. Loddiges's 

 plants, though undoubtedly the fame fpecies. Haller fays 

 it has both obtufe and lanceolate leaves ; indeed the whole of 

 his excellent defcription leaves no room to doubt of the identity 

 of his plant with ours. 



The fcape is red, very ereel;, as in the figure in Jacquin's 

 Flora Auftriaca, and the umbel, as in that, is furrounded with 

 an involucre of 5 — 7 leaflets, fimilar to the leaves but fome- 

 what narrower. Pedicles about the length of the involucre. 

 Calyx rather ovate-campanulate than turbinate and deeply 

 divided into five conniving fegments. Corolla white, but 

 marked at the centre with a bright red or yellow eye : tube 

 perfectly ovate, yellowifli, clofely embraced by the calyx : 

 limb 5-cleft, fegments roundifh, quite entire, or fometimes 

 flightly emarginate : faux a circular opening, through which 

 the five yellow anthers are difcernible, the glands and plicae, 

 defcribed by Haller and other authors, being very minute 

 and not clofing this part. Filaments attached to the lower 

 part of the tube. Germen orbicular, depreffed at top: 

 ftyle ftiort, erea : fligma capitate. Scentlefs. Tatte of the 

 leaves (lightly and not unpleafantly acid. Some of the above 

 charaders correfpond with Von Wulfen's And rosace. 

 villofa, others with his Chamajqfme ; but the former may per- 

 haps, as before obferved, be a new fpecies diftinguifhed more 

 efpecially by the glaucous colour of the leaves and the in- 

 volucre confiding of only two or three leaflets. 



Our drawing was made at the Botanic Garden, Brompton. 



Propagated by parting the roots. Though perfectly hardy 

 with refpea to cold, thefe alpine plants are fure to be foon 

 loft, unlefs planted in a pot ; and as they flower very earlv, 

 they fucceed beft if flickered by a hand-glafs or common glafs 

 frame. During the Summer it is neceflary to keep them 

 entirely in the (hade. 



