PLATE CLXXX. 



ATRAGENE AUSTRIACA. 



Aujirian Atragene. 



CLASS XIIL ORDER VIL 

 POLYANDRIA POLYGVNIA. IMany Chives. JNIany Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx 4-phyllus. Petals. 12, Seniina caudata. 



Empalemknt 4 leave». Petals 12. Seeds with 

 tails. 

 See Atragene Capensis, PI. IX. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Atragene foliis oppofitis, triternatis; foliolis ru- 

 gofis, ferratis; floribus lolitariis, tomentofis, 

 cernuis; calyce magno, cxruleo, marginato. 



Atragene with oppofite, twice-ihree-divided 

 leaves; leaflets rough and fa wed; flower» 

 Iblitary, downy, nodding; empalement large, 

 blue, and bordered. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Leaf of the empalement. 



2. A fetal of the flower. 



3. A Chive complete. 



4. The Pointals as they Hand in the flower. 



5. A ripe feed, with its feathered tail. 



This is, vinqneftionably, the Auftrian Atragene of Jacquin's Vind. 240; and, we think, no one who 

 has had an opportunit3' of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine it a dillindt 

 fpecies. It is a hardy, climbing flirub; 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 thicknels. The flowers begin to appear about May; and continue 

 in fuccellion, till July. It may be propagaled by layers; but, the furcfl: mode is by feed, which 

 may be fown as loon as ripe, and which will be perfected from the firft flowers, by Augull. It grows 

 the mol^ flourifhing in light rich earth ; but will live in the moll common. Our figure was made 

 from a plant in the Hammerfmith collection, to which it was firft introduced in the year 1792. 



