recently discovered in Scotland by Mr. George Dun. SiS 



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 Linnaeus, 

 whose original error seems to have arisen from the obscurity of 

 a figure in his own manuscript ? It is, after all, possible that the 

 styles may vary in number from three to five. 



9. PoTENTiLLA tridcutata, 



foliis ternatis cuneiformibus : supra glabris : subtils pilosis : apice 

 trifidis. 



P. tridentata. Ait. H. Kew. v. 2. 2 16. t. g. IVilld. Sp. Vl.v. 2. 1 110. 



Discovered last summer on a mountain called Wei'ron, 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 tnuch di- 

 stinction in our gardens, though sometimes seen there. The 

 flowers are white. Tlie plant in Fl. Danica, t. 799, P- rctusa Retz. 

 Prodr. 123, cited by Willdenow, has hairy leaves and yellow 

 flowers, and must certainly be a different species. 



10. Ranunculus alpesti-is, 



foliis glaberrimis : radicalibus subcordatis obtusis tripartitis 

 lobatis ; caulino lanceolato integerrimo, caule subunifloro. 



R. alpestris. Lintu Sp. PL 77S, Jacq. Aiixtr. t. IIO. 



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 

 liave been overlooked, but when in blossom it is truly a splendid 

 plant." The petals are inversely hcartshaped, of a brilliant white. 



2 Y 2 Calyx 



