small, and two four times their size, broadly obovate, pure 
white (in their cultivated specimens), tapering at the base 
into a narrow claw. Stamens; two short and four long, 
yellow. Filament bent down as it were at the very point, 
and there inserted into the back near the base of the ovate 
anther. Pistil shorter than the stamens. Germen rhom- 
boid, flat, a little keeled on each side in the middle. 
Style as long as the germen, thickish, cylindrical. Stigma 
capitate. 
A native of the Alps of Piedmont and Dauphinée, and 
certainly, as it appears to me, very near allied to the Pyre- 
nean I. spathulata. Both are described as having the 
leaves entire. My native specimens of I. spathulata have 
the leaves serrated, and those of I. nana are entire: but 
in a cultivated state they are both serrated and entire. 
Raised from seeds sent from Dr. Fiscuer of Gottingen, 
by Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. In all pro- 
bability the plant is perfectly hardy, and will prove a great 
ornament to rock work with its showy long-continuing 
flowers: but, hitherto, we have kept it under a common 
frame, where it has flowered in April and May. 
. The flowers are constantly white in our cultivated spe- 
cimens, but the wild ones are rose coloured. 
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Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. One of the smaller, and 3, One of the larger 
Petals, natural size. 4. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 5. Single Stamen. 
6. Side view of part of a Filament and Anther. 7. Pistil—More or less 
magnified, 
