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Corolla white, hypocrateriform, longer than the calyx. Tube
wide, hypogynous. Limb (J-inch across) 5-parted, segments
rounded, as long as the tube. Stamens 5, shorter than the limb.
Filaments subulato-linear, adhering to the whole length of
the tube, erect or slightly connivent from the fissure between
the lobes. Anthers yellow, 2-cells, cells divaricated
at the base, and opening along their outer edge; pollen granules
small, oblong. Pistil as long as the stamens. Stigma
capitate. Style tapering. Germen ovate, 3-locular. Ovules
very numerous, attached to central receptacles.
This Plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh,
from seeds gathered on the Rocky Mountains, North America,
by Mr. Drummond, in the last expedition of Captain
Franklin, and flowered in April, having been kept in the
open border, and occasionally covered with a hand-glass.
It is one of several alpine species, which are met with near
the summit of the White Hills, New Hampshire, mountains
far removed from any other of sufficient elevation to produce
them. It is not easy to conjecture why such plants as
this are scattered so widely into similar climates of the old
and new world, while the profusion of Heaths, which the
former possesses, does not afford a single species to America.
Graham, MSS.
For the above account of this interesting little alpine
plant, we are indebted to our learned and estimable friend.
Dr. Graham, whose generous sentiments and devotion to
science are well appreciated by those who enjoy the pleasure
of his acquaintance. The drawing is from the accurate pencil
of Mr. James M‘Nab, whom an ardent love of botany has
led to visit the wilds of America.
Diapensia was the Greek name of the Sanicle, and was
given by Linnseus in the Flora Lapponica, without any good
reason, as he himself confesses, to the elegant little plant
now before us. D . Don.
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