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SPECIES III— AL CHE MILL A CONJUNCTA. Bah. 



Plate CCCCXXIV. 



A. alpina, var. /3, Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 196. Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. p. 132. 



Rootstock rather slender, scarcely woody, producing several 

 ascending or decumbent stems slightly branched above. Radical 

 leaves on long stalks, orbicular, shining-silvery and silky-white 

 beneath, 5- to 9-partitc ; lobes extending two-tliirds or three-quarters 

 way down, broadly oblong-elliptical, serrated for one-third or half- 

 way down from the apex ; the exterior ones contiguous. Lower 

 stipules tubular-funnelshaped, acutely lobed at the apex ; uppei'- 

 most ones widely funnel-shaped, with a palmatcly-cleft free portion. 

 Flowers stalked, in small irregular cymes arranged in interrupted 

 spikes, which form the branches of a lax irregular panicle. Achene 

 ovate-ovoid, gradually acuminated, smooth without glandular dots. 



On Alpine rocks. Very rare, if really occurring wild in 

 Britain ; said to liave been found at Borrowdale, Cumberland, 

 by Mr. Bowman, but he himself stated that the plant was A. 

 alpina ; Glen Sannox, Arran (Dr. Tyacke), but I have not seen 

 the specimens ; Clova Mountains (Don), but the specimens are 

 apparently cultivated ones ; also in the latter station by Mr. A. O. 

 Black, from whom I have examples. One of these, which is in 

 flower, is certainly A. alpina ; besides this there are a few tufts of 

 root-leaves, which I believe to be A. conjuncta, though the leaves 

 are less silvery beneath, the lobes rather narrower and serrated 

 only towards the ajiex ; in all which points they approach A. alpina. 

 The true plant was found by Sir Walter Trevelyan, in the Feroe 

 Islands ; and, according to Mr. H. C. Watson, in Switzerland by 

 Mr. T. Twining; so that there is no improbability of the plant 

 occurring in this country. 



Scotland (?). Perennial. Summer. 



The following description is drawn up from cultivated speci- 

 mens : — 



Rootstock branched. Stems several, decumbent at the base, 

 then ascending, 6 to 15 inches long, silky. Root-leaves on petioles 

 2 to 6 inches long ; lamina 2 to 3 inches in diameter ; lobes blunt 

 and rounded at the apex, sharply serrated nearly half-way down, 

 plicate when young, flat when mature, deep-green above, with an 

 edging of silky hairs, brilliant silky beneath; the basal lobes 

 scarcely more separated than the other, so that the leaf appears 

 peltate ; stem-leaves reniform. Stipules of the lower stem-kaves 



