a dense globular head. Involucrum or common calyx of 

 many leaflets, like the cauline leaves, but smaller. Calyx 

 proper tubular, five-cleft: teeth subulate, acute, ciliated. 

 Corolla monopetalous : lacinia, five, filiform, unequal : the 

 three upper ones three or four times longer than the two 

 lower. Stamens 4, distinct, longer than the corolla : anthers 

 two-lobed, deep blue. Style shorter than stamens ; stigma 

 bifid. Receptacle paleaceous. Taste of the leaves slightly 

 bitter. 



This plant apparently varies very much in the size of the 

 radical leaves, which in our specimen, with the footstalk, 

 rarely equalled an inch in length, whereas Pollich describes 

 them as being four inches and a half long ; perhaps more 

 than one species have been confounded together. The 

 three teeth at the apex of the leaf are very frequently 

 wanting altogether, and are always much less remarkable 

 than in Globularia Alypum. According to Scopoli the 

 leaves of the former year are emarginate with a mucro in 

 the middle and the young leaves three -toothed. 



Native of Switzerland and the south of Europe. Flowers 

 in May. Communicated by Mr. Anderson from the Chelsea 

 garden, who received it from Switzerland through Mr. 

 Schleicher. 



