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JASIONE perennis. 
Perennial Sheep’ s-hit. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNId. (MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. Persoon syn.) 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACER, Jussieu gen. 163. Brown prod. 1. 559. 
JASIONE. Cal. 5-fidus: Cor. rotata, tubo brevissimo, laciniis 5-longis 
linearibus. Stam. 5, antheris in tubum coalitis. Stig. bifidum. Caps. 5- 
gona, 2-locularis, calyce coronata. lores aggregati in calyce communi 
polyphyllo supra receptaculum nudum. Caules sepé simplices, Capitula 
terminalia solitaria: flores centrales sepé abortivi stigmate indiviso. Ha-— 
bitus ScaBiosm. Juss. loc. cit. 166. 
J. perennis, foliis linearibus sublevibus planis obtusiusculis. Lamarck encyc. 
3. 216. illustr. 724. jig. 2. ; 
_Jasione perennis. Persoon syn. 2.215. Lam. et Decand. flor. frang. 3.717. 
_- Sweet hort. sub. lond. 37. : 
Jasione montana (@.) Willd. sp. pl. 1. 888. 
_ Jasione montana (@.) radice perenni. Lin. suppl. 392. 
Jasione montana. Villars dauph. 2. 670; (side Decandollat.) 
 Caulis erectus simplicissimus v. de bast ramosus, in planté hortenst glaber 
in spontaned pubescens, pedalis v. plurimum altior, infra medium foliis 
crebris vestitus. Fol. numerosa, sparsa, exacté linearia, sesquiunciam ad 2 
uncias cum dimidio longa latitudine subbilineari, obtusiuscula, integra, 
plana, in planté culté subglabra, in spontaned hispidins pubescentia. Capitula 
congesta, cerulea solitaria, montane majora, pedunculis aphyllis 6-8 uncia- 
libus v. circa insidentia. Involucrum é foliolis 12-13 planis horizontalibus 
margine acute at raré dentatis. Lam. loc. cit.; (ex gallico versum). 
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A species first distinguished from montana by the Che- 
valier de Lamarck, who observes that it not only differs in 
being perennial instead of annual, but likewise in having 
strictly linear leaves, which neither taper dow-wards nor 
are waved or curled at the edge. It is not noticed in the 
late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, though stated in Sweet’s 
Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis to have been cultivated in 
our gardens in 1787. Native of the South of France. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery belonging to 
Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the 
plant is cultivated in a warm border in the open ground. 
The following description is the English of an article 
of the ingenious and diligent Lamarck, in his Encyclopédie 
Botanique. 
