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ing in June. The stem has never more than one or two flowers. 

 The leaves are quite smooth and shining, except the petioles, 

 which are slightly fringed with soft villous hairs. The narrower 

 segments of its leaves, which are acute, straight and awned, and 

 the lanceolate laciniae of its calyx, as well as its obovate pe- 

 tals, at once distinguish it from S. incuroifoUa. It cannot he 

 confounded with S. aespitosa, as will be seen on a comparison 

 of their characters. The late Mr. Don cultivated it under the 

 name of S. lavis ; but it is very distinct from the Icevis known 

 in the gardens, which is the S.condensata of Gmelin's Fl. Ba- 

 densis. 



84. S. Sternbergii, glabra ; foliis radicalibus palmatifidis ; sur- 

 culinis trifidis indivisisve : lobis ovatis acutis muticis, 

 laciniis calycinis ovatis mucronatis, petalis obovatis: ner- 

 vis ramosissimis. 



S. Sternbergii. JVilld. Ennm. p.462. Sternb. Saxif. p. 56. 

 t. 24. (mala.) 



S. palmata. Pa?iz. in Sturm. Deutsch. Fl. 26. Heft. t. 10. 

 /. 2. (ex Sternb. I. c.) 



Habitat in Agro Norimbergensi Germanise. Panzer, if. 

 (v. v. c.) 



Herba laete virens, glaberrima, dense csespitosa. Surctdi 

 brevissimi, conferti. Caules erecti, 3 — 4-unciales, gla- 

 bri, 2 — 3- rarius 4-flori. Folia radicalia 5-fida, palmata ; 

 surculina trifida aut indivisa : lobis ovatis acutis muticis ; 

 caulina omnia indivisa, cuneata, acuta, glabra, nitida, 

 conspicuk nervosa. Flores magni, albi. Calyces pedi- 

 eellique pilis glanduliferis brevissimis adspersi : laciniae 

 ovatae mucronatse trinerves : mucrone recurvo. Petala 

 obovata, triplinervia : nervis flexuosis, ramosissimis 



Obs. 



