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 Jasione perennis. Perennial Sheeps-bit. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Involucr. 10-fidum. Cat. 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petala, regu- 

 laris. Antherce basi cohaerentes. Caps, infera, bilocularis, 

 polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Jasione perennis ; foliis linearibus sublaevibus planis obtusi- 

 usculis. Lam. Encucl. 3. p. 216. Illustr. Gen. t. 724. 



Jasione montana, |3. perennis, radice perenni. Linn. Suppl. 

 p. 392. Willd. Sp. PL 1. ;j. 889. 



Descr. i?oo£ perennial, putting- forth several upright 

 simple stalks, bearing each a single hemispherical, finally 

 globular, capilulum of flowers, the lower part clothed with 

 linear, obtuse leaves, quite smooth except a few hairs at the 

 edge towards the base, neither toothed nor undulate ; the 

 upper part naked, angular, forming a peduncle from four to 

 six inches long, involncrum of about ten lozenge-shaped 

 leaves, senate. Calyx superior, persistent 5-tooth : teeth 

 subulate. Corolla 5-cleft : lacinite linear, filiform. Stamens 

 °> shorter than the corolla. Anthers oval, bursting before 

 the expansion of the corolla, as in most eampunulaccce, but, 

 as tar as we could observe, at no time united, as in montana. 

 Germen interior, 2-ceJJed. Style after impregnation length- 

 ening beyond the corolla. Stigma club-shaped, villous, 

 finally bi id. 



It has been much doubted whether this is a distinct species 

 or only a mere variety of Jasione montana; but if our ob- 

 servation of the anthers being always distinct is correct, it 



can 



