PLATE CLXXX.
A T R A G E N E A U S T R I A C A.
Aaflrian Atragene.
CLASS XIII. ORDER VII.
POLY A NDJi IA POLYGYNIA. Many Chives. Many Pointals.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTElt.
C A L Y X 4 - p h y l l u s . Petala. 1 2 . Semina caudata. • EMPALEMEXT 4 leaves. Petals 1 2 . Seeds with
tails.
See A n t AGKNE C A P E X S I S , P I . I X . V o l . 1 .
At r a g ene folds oppolitis, triternatisS; PfEolCioIliFs IrCu - C H A R A C T E R .
golis, ferratis; floribus folitariis, tomentofis,
cernuis; calyce naagno, coeruleo, marginato.
Atragene with oppofite, twice-three-divided
leaves; leaflets rough and fawed; flower*
folitary,downy, nodding; empalement large,
blue, and bordered.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A Leaf of the empalement.
2. A Petal of the flower.
3. A Chive complete.
4. The Pointals as they ftand in the flower.
5. A ripe feed, with its feathered tail.
T u t s is, unqueftionably, the Auflrian Atragene of Jacquin's Vind. 249 } and, w e think, no one who
has had an opportunity of comparing the A. alpina with this plant, but will determine U a d n W t
fpecies. It is a hardy, climbing flirub; growing frequently, eight or ten feet in a eafon and covers
Self pretty abundantly with foliage ; the foot-ftalks of the old leaves becomtng curb, ortendr.ls and
he wood growing to a conliderablethicknefs. The flowers begin to appear about May; and conttnue
SfiTcceRion tilUuly. It may be propagated by layer:; but, the fureft mode is by eed which