are cleft into numerous other linear bluntish segments, the
corolla being cleft about half way down. Stamens 5, inserted
in the throat: filaments broad and flattish below the
anthers, attached to their back, and extending beyond them
in a blue point. Anthers two-celled, bursting in front to
discharge the pollen. Ovarium pyramidal, smooth. Style
slender, rather shorter than the corolla. Stigma a small
simple head.
An old inhabitant of our gardens, having been introduced
about the middle of the 16th century. Itdiffers from S. montana,
by the corolla being more deeply jagged, and by the
more exserted style, and from S. minima by its crenated
leaves. It is a beautiful little plant, native of the Alps
of Europe, in Germany, Switzerland, &c. flowering in April
and May. As it will not live in the open border, it must
be grown in a pot, in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, the
pot to be well drained with sherds. It is only to be propagated
by dividing the plant at the root.
The plant from which our figure was taken, flowered in
the Nursery of Mr. Pamplin, Lavender Hill, Wandsworth
Road.
The generic name is a diminutive of a shilling; the
round leaves of the species being very like pieces of money,
in shape.
1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, shewing th e 5 lacerated divisions. 3. Th e base
ot th e Corolla, shewing the insertion o f the Stamens. 4. Ovary, S ty le , and Stigma.