SOLDANELLA Clusii. 

 Clusiuss Soldanella. 



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Class and Order. — Pentandria Moxogynia. 



Syn. Soldanella Clusii. Curt. Bot. Mag. pi. 2163. 

 — Soldanella montana? Sweet's B. F. G. vol. I. p. 11. 



Root fibrous — leaves radical, on long petioles, orbicular, cordate, slightly 

 crenate, of a dark green, paler underneath — stem radical, erect, three or 

 four inches high — segments of the involucrum linear — flowers terminal, 

 drooping, — calyx five, segments linear, spreading — corolla purple, 

 monopetalous, campanulate, margin deeply laciniated — stamens five, 

 anthers tw^o lobed — style very long, germen inferior. 



The beautiM genus Soldanella is peculiarly adapted to rock 

 work, to which it is a great ornament ; the different species are all 

 hardy, but like many alpine plants, require shelter from severe frosts, 

 as a substitute for the snow of their native mountains ; this species is 

 found on the mountains of Bohemia, and on the Austrian and Styrian 

 Alps, and was introduced into this country about the year 1816. it 

 grows best in a mixture of peat and sandy loam, and is readily in- 

 creased by seeds, or by parting the roots ; the genus is by no means 

 common, perhaps, from their requiring a very pure air to grow them in 

 perfection ; it is the safest plan to keep all alpine plajits in a frame 

 duiing winter, or to cover them with dri/ saw dust, over which may be 

 placed a hand-glass or garden-pot. This species is called after Clusius 

 a celebrated Botanist, it being (according to the Bot. Mag. p. 211.) 

 first described and figured by him. There are two other beauti- 

 fid species, with smaller flowers, S. alpina, S. minima. 



PI. 14. 



