lobes a little divaricate at the basc,. terminated with a blue 
mucronate appendix: style longer than the Corolla. ‘The 
base of the wmbel is surrounded with an involucrum consisting 
of as many linear leaves as there are flowers. | 
SoLpANeLLA Clusii differs from alpina (Bot. Mag. No. 49,) 
not only in its larger size, but in the form of the leaves which 
are more orbicular, surrounding the extremity of the petiole, 
aud are distantly crenated; in the lacinie of the corolla, which 
in alpina are all of them linear; in the greater length of the 
style, which is longer than the corolla. Professor ScumupT in 
his Flora Boémica has wel! established the characters of the 
two species, and retained the name of alpina to our present 
subject, and applied that of S. Clusii to qur alpina ; but as 
the latter name has been applied to the other species both by 
Jacquin and in the Botanical Magazine, we think it will be , 
_ tess likely to occasion confusion to give the name of Soxpa- 
NELLA Clusit to the present plant, an additional reason for 
_ which is, that this is the one first described and figured by 
Cuusivs. 
We were favoured with this beautiful little plant by 
Messrs. Wurttey, Bramxs, and Mruns, in April last. It is 
hardy, but, like many other alpine plants, requires some 
protection from frost, to supply the absence of snow, its 
natural covering during the severe weather, in its native 
climate, the Austrian and Styrian Alps. It is sometimes found 
with white flowers. 
