Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Ticonia. 283 



This species is entirely unrecorded. It was raised by Messrs. 

 Loddiges and Sons of Hackney, from seeds obtained from Pallas, 

 and said to be from Siberia; although from its appearance mc 

 should rather suspect it to have come from the Crimea, where 

 that respected naturalist spent the latter years of his life. From 

 Messrs. Loddiges. it has found its way into the gardens of the 

 curious under the mistaken name of anomala. We dislinsuished 

 it three years ago in Mr. Sabine's collection as a truly distinct 

 species; and it has been reserved for us first to describe it. 



This plant is at first sight distinguishable from its congeners by 

 its short, rigid, upright stalks, the dark blueish-green colour of its 

 leaves, which are fiat, compact, very much divided, the laciniae 

 crowded, overlapping each other, very woolly on the under-side, 

 nowise bordered with red as in most of the others, and the lateral 

 leaflets being almost sessile, the exterior side of each disposed to 

 be decurrent. It is the most dwarf of all our species, seldom 

 reaching eighteen inches in height even in our gardens. The stalks 

 as well as the primary petioles are nearly smooth. The flower is 

 «mall, of a dark dull purplish-red, by no means handsome. 



POSTSCRIPT BY JOSEPH SABINE, Esq. 

 Two days after the preceding account had been brought to its 

 present state, by the diligence and industry of my most valued 

 friend, he was accidentally killed by a fallfrom a carriage. This me- 

 lancholy event happened on the 10th of January last, near his own 

 house at West-Ham; and the superintendence of the publication 

 of this paper in consequence of this misfortune has fallen on me 

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