it flowered in the Alpine House of the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, in April, 1902. 



Descr. — Whole plant clothed with soft, white, spreading 

 hairs. Bootstoch erect, woody, sometimes as thick as the 

 middle finger. Badical leaves with the slender petiole a 

 few inches to a span long, broadly ovate, pinnatisect ; 

 segments two or three pairs, opposite, about an inch long, 

 broadly ovate or oblong, sessile or shortly petiolulate, 

 inciso-lobate and coarsely toothed, base cuneate ; invo- 

 lucral leaves sessile, pinnatifid ; segments linear, sub-acute 

 or obtuse, trifid to multifid. Peduncles long, one-flowered. 

 Floioer nodding, very variable in size, one to two 

 inches in diameter. Sepals ovate, obtuse, spreading, pale 

 purplish externally, and there clothed with long, silky 

 hairs, glabrous and dark red-brown within. Stamens 

 crowded, anthers yellow. Styles dark violet-blue. Fruit 

 of many achenes, the ovary and long slender styles clothed 

 with long, silky hairs. — J.D.H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, immature achene : — all enlarged. 



