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glandular articulate hairs. This species grows in dense tufts, 
the prostrate stems slender, often of considerable length. 
Leaves narrow, simple or 3-lobed ; lobes acute. Flower-stems 
with few leaves. Common in the North of England and Scot- 
land, and elsewhere in Europe. 8S. cespitésa, an indigenous 
species with obtusely lobed leaves and fewer barren shoots; 
S. muscoides, S. Androsdcea, and a host of other Alpine species 
belong to this section; and S. ceratophylla, a very handsome 
allied species of dwarfer growth, with rigid sharply-cut leaves 
and relatively large white flowers, is a native of South-western 
Europe. 
7. S. Aizion.—A dwarf herb less than a foot high with 
rosulate oblong or ligulate leaves margined with sharp teeth 
and a grey incrustation, and pinkish white flowers. A native 
of the Alps of Europe. This and many other species with in- 
crusted leaves are more curious and interesting than ornamental. 
S. Cotylédon has tall branching flowering stems 2 to 3 feet high 
and white flowers; and S. aretioides is a diminutive plant 
about 2 inches high with glandular spathulate leaves and few 
yellow flowers. Both are found inthe Pyrenees. S. Andréwsii 
and S. Guthriedna are hybrids, between this and the wmbrdse 
section, 
3. PARN ASSIA. 
Stemless herbs with radical entire leaves and 1-flowered 
scapes. Flowers white or pale yellow, about an inch in 
diameter, pentamerous, 5 fertile and 5 sterile stamens alter- 
nating. Capsule 1-celled, loculicidally 3- or 4-valved, many 
seeded. About twelve species, from the northern temperate 
and frigid zones. 
1. P. palistris. Grass of Parnassus.—An indigenous species. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, one to two inches long, on slender 
petioles. Scape about a foot high, with one sessile leaf about 
the middle. 
P. asarifolia with reniform leaves, and P. Caroliniana 
with cordate-ovate obtuse leaves, are North American species. 
All are very pretty and interesting. 
Trise I.—FRANCOERA. 
Scapigerous herbs with the parts of the flowers in fours. 
Stamens 4 or 8. Natives of Chili. 
