PLATE CLXXX. 
APOAGENE AUSTRIA-CA, 
Aufirian Atragene. 
CLASS XIll. ORDER VIL, 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNLA. Many Chives. Many Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 
EMPALEMENT 4-leaves. Petals 12. Seeds with 
tails. 
See ATRAGENE Capensts, Pl. IX. Vol. I. 
Caryx 4-phyllus, Petala. 12, Semina caudata. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. : 
Atragene foliis oppofitis, triternatis; foliolis ru- Atragene with oppofite, twice-three-divided 
gofis, ferratis; floribus folitariis, tomentofis, leaves; leaflets rough and fawed; flowers 
cernuis; calyce magno, ceruleo, marginato. folitary, downy, nodding; empalement large, 
blue, and bordered. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Leaf of the empalement. . 
\2. A Petal of the flower. 
- A Chive complete. 
_ 4. The Pointals as they ftand in the flower, 
_ 5. A ripe feed, with its feathered tail. 
ie) 
ta j 
Tuis is, ‘unqueftionably, the Auftrian Atragene of Jacquin’s Vind. 249; and, we think, no one who 
has had an opportunity of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine it a diftin® 
fpecies. Itisa hardy, climbing fhrub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a feafon, and covers 
itfelf pretty abundantly with foliage ; the foot-ftalks of the old leaves becoming cirrhi or tendrils, and 
the wood growing to a confiderable thicknefs. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continue’ 
in fucceffion, til] July. It may be propagated by layers; but, the fureft inode is by feed, which. 
may be fown as foon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the firft flowers, by Auguft. It grows 
the moft flourifhing in light rich earth ;_ but will live in the moft common. Our figure was made 
from a plant in the Hammerfinith collection, to which it was firft introduced in the year 1792. 
