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places of the high Alps, among the debris left by snow, 

 glaciers, &c. Riffel, Mont Mille above Bagnes, &c. 



R. Parnassifolius also is found among the rocky gravels of 

 high mountains, its vrhite flowers, with a large scale to the 

 nectary, varying from one to many. The root-leaves are 

 oval, heart-shaped, the others more lanceolate, more or less 

 covered with cottony down. Great St. Bernard, Dent du 

 Midi, Zermatt, Albula, High Engadine, Mont Meiry. 



Very rare is R, rutsefolius ; its white flowers, with orange 

 centres and no scale, have from five to fifteen petals, and 

 grow one or two on the stalk. The root-leaves are bi- 

 pinnate, with thrice-divided segments. Between the Lac 

 Noir and the foot of Cervin, mountains of St. Gall, Mont 

 Cenis, Rhoetian Alps. 



We must not leave this family Avithout mentioning 

 R. aconitifolius, known to some by the name Fair Maids of 

 France, a double kind of which is to be seen in old- 

 fashioned gardens. The white flowers, with a scale on the 

 nectary, grow in a loose corymb of three or four together 

 with long foot-stalks, on stems from a few inches to two or 

 three feet high. The leaves are rather palmate, with from 

 three to five divisions, their lobes pointed. Frequently seen 

 in moist mountain-pastures, and thickets of the Jura and 

 Alps, Pilatus, Maderaner Thai, &c. 



