It was firft difcovered on the fummits of the loffy Alps of 

 Auftria and Stiria, growing in the crevices of the rocks and 

 frightful precipices, by Clusius, who has given a defcription 

 and good figure of it in his Stirpes Pannoniae, drawn however, 

 like ours, from a cultivated fpecimen, as he fays he fent feeds 

 and young plants to his fiiends in Holland, from which his 

 figure was executed. 



Nicholas Clave n a, an apothecary at Belluna, in the 

 Venetian territory, wrote a treatife on the virtues of this plant, 

 ■which be found on Mount Serva, and fuppofed it to be dif- 

 ferent from that defcribed by Clusius. He alfo obtained a 

 patent for preparing a conferve of it, and publifhed a treatife 

 on its virtues, which gave rife to a fevere attack from his 

 rival Pompey Sprecchis. Both thefe authors have given 

 original figures of this fpecies, but neither of them are nearly 

 equal to that of Clusius. 



From the above account it appears that Lin nous's name 

 being derived from this Venetian apothecary, ought to have 

 been written Chivence. The miftake probably originated with 

 Haller, who every where fpells this name with a double n ; 

 and from him Linnaeus moft probably derived all his know- 

 ledge of the writer. 



The Achillea Clavena may be confidered as a connecting 

 link between this genus and Artemifia. According to Clu- 

 sius it has not only the hoary appearance, but the bitter 

 talte and fcented feeds of the wormwood ; Clavena however 

 denies that this plant poffevTes either of thefe properties. 



Cultivated by Mr. James Sutherland, in the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, in the year 1683. It is a rare plant, being, 

 like moft alpine plants, rather difficult to preferve. Planted 

 on rock-work, or on a wall, in a fhady fituation, it would moft 

 likely endure longer than in a rich damp foil. 



Flowers in June and July. Communicated by Mr. Salis- 

 bury, from his Botanic Garden in Sloane- Street. 



