Descr. Plant cefpitofe ; r-jotftock flefhy, thick, fpreading 

 horizontally, knobbed, with very fhort internodes, befet on 

 the upper tide with fcariofe fphacelate root/heaths and remnants 

 of decayed foliage ; integumenls dark-brown; leaves 5 — 7 in 

 each diitintt fafcicle, narrowly lorate-enfiform ; cauline ones 

 generally two, the uppermoft of which is not unfrequently 

 flexuofely waved ; jiem 2 — 3 feet high or higher, upright, 

 round, hollow, upwards geniculately flexuofe, terminated by a 

 two-flowered fpathe or involucre (a little below which there is 

 ufually a branchlet that bears another that is one-flowered) ; 

 Valves fphacelate, fcariofe, brown, fquarrofely divaricate ; 

 pedicles _ generally longer than thefe, unequal > germen green, 

 prilmatic-oblong, generally fhorter than pedicles, twice as long 

 as the tube of the corolla, which is angularly and fliortly 

 cupped, green; outer -fegments largeft, obovate fpathulate ; 

 ungues Wm, fmooth, turbinately divergent ; lamina nearly twice 

 longer than thefe, obtufe, recurvedly deflefted on the inner 

 fide, interfered longitudinally by a glandular prominent weal 

 or ridge that lofes id'elf gradually at each extremity ; inner 

 fegments upright, connivent, oval-oblong, tapered near the bale 

 into fhort pedicellately convolute ungues ; Jiyle the length of the 

 tube, free ; fligmas divaricate, recurved, nearly horizontal, 

 oblong-cuneate, rather longer than outer ungues ; inner lip bi- 

 partite, fegments fubparabolical, rounded obliquely, denti- 

 culately jagged, the inner edge of the one lapping over that of 

 the other ; outer lip minute, fubulate, entire, revolute ; capfule 

 brown, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, bluntly trigonal, futures over- 

 laid by a prominent filiformly thickened nerve, that fplits toge- 

 ther with thefe; valves veined-wrinkled, with afliallow-depreflcd 

 line down their middle aftfwering to the bafe of the feptum ; 

 feeds piled in double columns in each cell, cartilaginous, flat- 

 tened oil Both fides, thickifh, femihmate, fmooth, brown. 



Native of Germany, Switzerland, Dauphiny, Siberia, and, 

 according to Gmei.in, of Kamtfchatca ; Ibid' to be generally 

 found on the outfkirts of watery meadows. We cannot other- 

 wile account for Murray's terming the corolia of this va- 

 riety "bearded;" than by fuppoiing, that he has delcribed 

 from the engraving which accompanies his account of it, and has 

 miftaker e lines that were meant by the artift to rep relent 

 the veinir >n the inner fide of the unguis of a detached outer 

 jegment of the flower given in that plate, for a " beard" The 

 flexuofe-undulate upper ftem-leaf is neither conftant in nor 

 peculiar to the prefent variety. 1 he bloom, which is pro- 

 duced about June or July, has a flight degree of fragrance. 

 A hardy plant, of eafy culture, and known to our Gardeners 

 tor thele two centuries part. G. 



