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ATRAGENE SIBIRICA. SIBERIAN ATRAGENE. 
JHEP H Heeb lee ib 
Class and Order. 
Poryanpria Potyernta. 
- Generic Character. 
.. Cal. 0. Cor. 4-pluri-petala. Nectaria 4, cum petalis alter-_ 
nantia. Filamenta exteriora dilatata subpetaliformia. Sem. 
 aristata ; aristis pilosis. : . | i 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ArrAGENE sibirica; foliis binis duplicato-ternatis ; foliolis 
lanceolato-ovatis serratis, nectariis emarginatis. Nobis 
supra No. 887. 6. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 341. 
Arracene alpina; Pallas Ross. part 2. p. 69. t.76. Gmel. 
Sibir. 4. p. 194. 
Crematis foliis compositis et decompositis : foliolis ternatis 
~-serratis. Mill. Ic. 2. p. 189. t. 284. — 
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At No. 887 of this work we gave an account of this 
species, as distinguished from AtTRaGENE austriaca and 
_ americana, figures of both of which we have before eas : 
The Arracene sitbirica flowers in February or March, 
three or four weeks earlier than austriaca, and on this 
account the seeds are frequently cut off by our spring-frosts, 
and, consequently, no flowers are produced ; and this hap- 
pens sometimes two or three years following. The leaves 
of sibirica are paler and more deeply notched than in aus- 
triaca. But however like these plants are in many parti- 
culars, the emarginate nectaries or four internal petals of — 
sibirica will always distinguish this species. We have seen 
at Mr. Loppiees a blue-flowered variety raised from Siberian 
seeds ; but in this also the nectarium was the same as in the 
white, and sufficiently distinguished it from austriaca. id 
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