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DRACOCEPHALUM GRANDIFLORUM. Bg- 
~ yony-LEAVED Dracon’s-HEAD. 
Sea sie Seis ESE HE EEE TE 
Cla/s and Order. 
, DipynamMta GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Generic Charaer. 
Corolle faux inflata: labium fuperius concavum. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
~DRACOCEPHALUM grandiflorum ; foliis crenatis : radica- — 
libus cordatis ; caulinis orbiculatis 
feffilibus, braéteis acuminato-dentatis. 
Linn. Sup. 274. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 319+ 
Mart. Mill. Diff. n. 12. 
DRACOCEPHALUM aaltaienfe. Laxman in AG. Peirop. v. 
15-1770. Pp. 556. t. 29. fig. Sy. Veg. 
454. Reich.3. p.89. Wailld.g. p. 155+ 
DRACOCEPHALUM filoribus verticillatis, foliis oblongis 
obtufis finuato crenatis, braéteis ob- 
longis. Gmel. Sib, 3. p. 233. #- 56+ 
MOLDAVICA orientalis, Betonice folio, flore magno vl0- — 
laceo. Tourn, Cor. 2. ? 
BOGULDEA ereéto flore magno purpureo-czruleo, Betonice 
foliis, longis pediculis infidentibus. — 
Stell, irc. n. 173. 
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The younger Linnaus united Laxman’s Dracocek- 
_PHALUM altaienfe with grandiflorum, confidering them as the 
fame fpecies ; and this bas been adopted both in the Hortus 
Kewenfis and Martyn’s Mitrer’s Ditionary, Witt- — 
DENOw has endeavoured again to feparate thefe plants, com- 
fidering them to be very different; as however we have no 
doubt but that Gmexin’s plant was the fame as Laxman’s, WE 
fee no reafon to make two {pecies: we are indeed more inclined 
to confider the palmatum of WittpEeNow as likewife a mere 
variety of this. -Like moft alpine plants, it varies much in 
ftature, from a finger’s length, to a foot, and in a vigorous 
ftate produces a great number of flowers both in whorls and 
in a terminating head. Our {pecimen was probably very much 
ftunted, from having been eaten down in the early part of the 
{pring by flugs, from whofe devaftations it is preferved with ex- 
treme difficulty ; otherwife it is a hardy herbaceous perennial. 
Native of the fummits of the Altaifch Alps, growing in the fhade 
in a northern afpe&t. Flowers with us in May and Junce — 
Communicated by Mr. Loopices in 1801. 
