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sunt flores vix qiiatuor linearam in diametro ; ) in quibus 

 modificationibus teste Hookero oranis posita est inter JL, 

 parvißoram Mchar, et A», borealem Richards, discrepan- 

 tia. — Radio: Jibrosa, scd fibrillae oriuntur e rhizomate 

 lignoso elougato saepe repeute, qiiare a Candollio male in 

 paragrapho: y,radice tuberosa" posita. Folia radicalia 

 \ pauca, glabriusrula, laevia; involucralia tria, tripartita, 

 lobis oblongis iutegris vel apice deutatis, in infera scapi 

 parte posita, ita ut iJcdunculus appareat lougissimns. Se- 

 pala 5 — 6, nunc paryula, nunc maxima, extus subscricea, 

 alba, haud raro ad basiu colore purpureo- coeruleo suffusa. 

 Carpidiornm capitula globosa, dcusissima. Carpidia dense 

 lanata, stylis subulatis glabris. — 



' Distributio geographica, America borealis: in- 

 ter 45° lat. usque ad mare arcticum^ 70° lat., Richardson! 

 Drumraondl — (inter Saslcatchaivan fluvium et lacuiii Ser- 

 vorum, Ricliardson! — alpes rupestres , Hooker! ; — Ca- 

 nada^ Torrey! — ad amnes Sinus Hudsonis, Michaux! — 

 Labrador y Pursh! Morisonl Herzberg! Henne! — Anti- 

 costi, Pursh! — Terra nova {New - Foundland), Banks.! 

 — Sinus Kotzebuei , Beecbey! — Unalaschka, Adalb, von 

 Chamisso ! — A sia borealisi Sinus St, Laurentii 

 (Chamisso!) KamtschatJca et insulae KurileSj Dr, Merk! in 

 herb. Willd. snppl. (a. 1788.) 



Observ, I, Floris pleni, staminibus omnibns in phylla 

 petaloidea introrsum decrescentia sive vera petala mutatis, 

 involucro magis remoto, exemplum praebuit sinus St. Lau- 

 rentii in terra Tschuktschorum pulcherrimum. (Schlech- 

 tendal ! ) 



Observ. II, Verisimiliter quoquc Anemone Mertensii, 

 quam in sinn St. Laurentii die XVIIL Jul. 1828 observarit, 

 eadem est-, cf. Linnaca 1830, p. 67: „Wo ein Bächelchen 



