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Carinthia, Salzburg. V. saliunca, AIL; flowers light 

 pink, fragrant, in a dense terminal capitate cyme, stem 

 2-6 in., leafy, leaves lanceolate, entire, glabrous ; high ; 

 Western Switzerland, Jura, Tirol, Piedmont, Dauphiny, 

 rare. V. celtica, L. ; flowers yellowish, in small axillary 

 cymes, forming an interrupted spike, stem 2-8 in., leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, whole plant fragrant; high 

 rocks ; local. V. saxatilis, L. ; flowers white, in loose 

 panicles, stem 4-12 in., leafless, radical leaves lan- 

 ceolate, entire, on long stalks ; high ; Eastern Switzer- 

 land, Lombardy. V. elongata, L. ; flowers yellow, in a 

 loose panicle, radical leaves on long stalks, stem-leaves 

 in about two pairs, ovate, sessile, coarsely toothed, stem 

 about i ft., slender; high; Southern Tirol, Carniola, 

 Carinthia, Styria. V. tripteris, L. ; flowers white or 

 pink, fragrant, crowded in a terminal cyme, stem 1-2 ft., 

 leafy, leaves of the barren shoots cordate, of the flower- 

 ing shoots pinnate with 3-5 leaflets ; bushy ; alpine. F. 

 montana, L. ; flowers pink or white, in a crowded corym- 

 bose cyme, stem 1-2 ft., leaves of the barren shoots 

 rounded at the base, of the flowering shoots entire, rarely 

 3-cleft ; high, moist. V. pyrenaica, L. ; flowers pink, in 

 corymbose cymes, stem 2-4 ft., hollow, radical leaves 

 very large, cordate, coarsely and unequally toothed, stem- 

 leaves of 3 leaflets ; Pyrenees. V. tuberosa } L. ; flowers 

 pink, unisexual, lower leaves elliptical, stalked, upper 

 pinnate, with 3-4 pairs of linear segments, stem 4-8 in., 

 root tuberous ; Carinthia, Pyrenees. V. globularicefolia, 

 Ram. ; resembling the last, but root not tuberous, bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, ciliate ; Pyrenees. 



