parnassia

[From the Greek name Agros tis en to Parna o, from Mount Parna us, where, on account of its elegance, it was said to have sprung up.] Bot.: A genus of plants which has been placed in the Droseraceæ, the Hyperiacese, tribe Elodee, the Violaceæ, . Sir Joseph Hooker considers it one of the Saxifragaceæ, as did Lindley in 1836. Leaves radical, quite entire; scape containing a single flower; calyx five-lobed, petals five, stamens five, alternating with five fringed and gland-tipped nectaries (staminodes), capsule membranous, loculi cidally three or four valved, many-seeded. Found in the northern hemisphere. Species twelve. One. Parna ia palustris , the Common Gra of Parnas sus, or Parna us-gra , is European. It has a large, handsome, yellowish-white flower. Par-năs-si-an, a. [PARNASSIUS.] Pertaining or relating to Parna us, a celebrated mountain in Greece, upon which Delphi was situated, and which was famous in ancient mythology as the favorite resort of Apollo and the Muses. From the summit ran down the famous Cast ali an stream.