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recently discovered in Scotland by Mr. George Don. 343 
in the Flora Danica, who says nothing at all like it. It is re- 
markable however that Haller, in the first edition of his Flora, 
describes only three styles. Could this be copied from Linnzus a 
whose original error seems to have arisen from the obscurity « 
a figure in his own manuscript? It is, after all, possible that 1 
styles may vary in number from three to five. T 
9. PorENTILLA tridentata, 
foliis ternatis cuneiformibus : suprà glabris: subtüs pilosis: apice 
tride — y er | | ^ 
SP: tridentata. Ait. H. Kew. v. 2. 216. t. 9. Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 2.1110. 
‘Discovered last summer on a mountain called Werron, and on 
some others to the westward, all in Angusshire. This, in Mr. 
Don's opinion, equals any of its genus, if it does not surpass 
them all, in point of beauty. It is not honoured with much di- 
stinction in our gardens, though sometimes seen there. The 
flowers are white. The plant in Fl. Danica, t. 799, P. retusa Retz. 
Prodr. 123, cited by Willdenow, has hairy leaves and yellow 
flowers, and must certainly be a different species. 
E 10. Ranuncutus alpestris, 
folis glaberrimis: radicalibus subcordatis. obtusis tripartitis 
lobatis; caulino lanceolato integerrimo, caule subunifloro. 
 R.alpestris. Linn. Sp. Pl. 778. Jacq. Austr. t. 110. | 
— By the sides of little rills, and in other moist places, about two 
or three rocks on the mountain of Clova, Angusshire, very rare, 
and but seldom flowering. Mr. Don suggests that “its herbage, 
bearing a great resemblance to several of its kindred, may easily. 
have been overlooked, but when in blossom it is truly a splendid 
` plant.” ‘The petals are inversely heartshaped, ofa brilliant white. 
2x2 | | Calyx 
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