quite smooth. Flowers in nodding racemes, pale red, changing 

 to bright blue. Peduncles hairy. Pedicles about the length 

 of the calyx. Calyx five-cleft, hairy. Corolla cylindrical. 

 Nectary, five hairy glands. Stamens on very short filaments, 

 inserted into the tube. Style filiform, longer than the corolla. 

 Stigma capitate, small. 



This species, although the least in the genus in point of 

 gi'owth, may be ranked as the most delicate and beautiful : it 

 grows about nine inches in height, and the flowers are beauti- 

 fully diversified with different shades of blue and pink. It well 

 merits a place in the ornamental flower-border, and may be 

 planted amongst rock-work with other flowering alpine plants ; 

 and as it loves a light soil and dry situation, it may here meet 

 with a spot congenial to its habits. The beauty of many small 

 alpine plants is much heightened through their being placed 

 in favourable situations on rock-work, especially when taste- 

 fully arranged so as to harmonize. It is in a great measure 

 through the introduction of ornamental rock-work in gardens, 

 that the beautiful tribe of alpine plants have increased in esti- 

 mation, and are now so much in repute. This species of 

 Pulmonaria does not frequently perfect its seeds, but is propa- 

 gated by separating its roots in the spring. It was introduced 

 in 1812, and is a native of Dauria. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



Magnified corolla cut open, showing the insertion of the stamens and 



pistil. 



