flowering branches, than in our figure, which was taken from 
one in the firft year of its flowering. Peduncles one-flowered, — 
longer than leaves, bent down as the fruit ripens. Calycine - 
leaflets ovate-acuminate, pubefcent, not ftriated. Corolla 5 
petaled, large, white: petals obovate, quite entire, rounded at 
the point, with hardly any claw. Svamens ten: filaments white. 
Germen roundifh, pointed : flyles or feffile ftigmas three, white. 
Capfule conical, one-celled, fplitting at the point into fix 
valves: Seeds many, kidney-fhaped, brown. 
This plant is one of the largeft of the genus, teaching’ fome- 
times, when fupported by the bufhes, amongft which -it pre- 
fers growing, to the height of a foot and a half or two feet; 
its flowers are fpecious enough to attraét attention, neither is 
it by any means uncommon in the mountainous diftriéts in the 
South of France, particularly in the vallies of the department of 
the Hautes-Pyrenées, in the mountains of Arragon, and in the 
northern parts of Portugal ; all which circumftances confidered, - 
it feems furprifing that the older Botanifts fhould have left us no 
certain account of this plant. The fynonym from Tourn EFORT 
was adduced by Venrenart on the authority of VarLLanTs © 
Herbarium, but Scarucuzer, who has mentioned Tourn®- 
Fort’ plant in his Itinera Alpina, probably miftook it for 
Crrastium fomentofum, as we infer from the other fynonyms 
‘ne has quoted. The firft fatisfattory account we find of the 
AARENARIA montana is in Dr. Monnier’s Obfervations on — 
the Natural Hiftory of the Southern Provinces of France, 
publifhed at the end of M. Casstnt pe Tuury’s Work on 
the Meridian of the Obfervatory at Paris. He fays that t 
occurs plentifully on the road from Orleans to Bourges, efpe- 
cially in the foreft of Alloigni. * ee 
_ Brorero feems to hefitate whether he fhould confider the’ 
plant he has defcribed under the name of ARENARIA mon 
tana to be the fame with that of Linnxus, but a comparifon 
of his own with Monnrer’s defcriptions, leaves no. room 0 
_ doubt of their identity. It is a perfeétly hardy perennial, 
fhould be planted in bog-earth, in a fhady and damp fituation. 
- Propagated by dividing its roots, or by feed. Flowers 19 
April, May, and June. . : 
: Our drawing was taken from a {pecimen in Mr. SaLtsBuR¥ 
Botanic Garden, at Brompton, in May 1807, - 
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