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leaves cordate, palmately lobed, hairy, involucral bracts 
lanceolate, often bifid. This beautiful plant is found occa- 
sionally in moist woods at a high elevation in Southern 
Switzerland (Engadine), Tirol, Piedmont (Mont Cenis), 
Styria, Carinthia, and Salzburg. 
4. HOTTONTIA, LE. 
Flowers in racemes, heterostylous; corolla salver- 
shaped, 5-lobed, fringed; stamens 5; capsule 5-valved, 
valves cohering at the top. Aquatic herbs. 
Hl. palustris, L., Water-Violet; flowers large, lilac 
with a yellow eye, leaves in whorls, pectinate, very 
deeply divided; ponds and ditches ; Southern Switzerland 
(rare), Jura, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
5. DOLDANELLA, lL. 
Flowers solitary, on long stalks, or in few-flowered 
umbels; corolla drooping, finely divided into many linear 
segments, usually blue; leaves all radical; fruit a 5—6- 
valved capsule, each valve with two teeth. The beautiful 
Snowbells are among the most favourite alpine plants, 
the flowers making their appearance in the very earliest 
spring, often on the edge of the snow; they occur espe- 
cially in the Swiss Alps. 
A. Flowers in 2—5-flowered umbels; style as long as, 
or longer than the corolla :—.S. alpina, L. (PI. 79); leaves 
cordate-reniform, entire or slightly crenate, thick, glabrous, 
corolla divided half-way down, with five membranous 
scales between the stamens; alpine pastures ; Switzer- 
land, Jura, Black Forest, Erzgebirge, Pyrenees. SS. 2on- 
tana, Willd.; leaves roundish, crenate, light green, usually 
