

from Buenos Ayres. lie tells us it is easily cultivated, and 

 as easily multiplied by parting the root ; that it will do in 

 the greenhouse, where however it should be considered as 

 rather tender. When in flower, which it is about Novem- 

 ber and December, it reminds us of the well-known Asteu 

 alpimis. The rootstock rises into a fleshy and ultimately 

 brown stem, resembling that of Colewort, but not thicker 

 than a common quill ; sometimes nearly 8 inches in height, 

 bearing a closish head of leaves, from among which several 

 flower-stems, each terminated by a single flower, and pro- 

 ducing from below a few distant one-ilowered leafy stalks 

 placed in various directions. Leaves glaucous and viscous, 

 with a disagreable smell like that perceptible in some of the 

 ScROPiiuLAKLE(Figworts): on the rootstock these are broadly 

 petiolate, with an obovate blade at times more than an inch 

 in breadth, loosely serrate at the sides, entire at the top; 

 on the flower-stem and stalks several times narrower, entire 

 and sessile. The florets of the lilac-coloured ray are rather 

 broader than usual in this genus, where the almost capillary 

 narrowness of these affords a chief mark of its separation 

 from Aster. The drawing was made in the garden of the 

 Lady we have mentioned above, at Bayswater. We saw 

 several others, but not in flower, at Mr. Gray's nursery, 

 Kensington Gore. If any one whose eye this may meet, 

 should be acquainted with any circumstance relating to this 

 plant that has escaped us, and should think proper to com- 

 municate the information to Mr. Ridgwav, the publisher, or 

 to Mr. Edwards, it will be inserted in a subsequent Number. 







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a The calyx of the flower enclosing the pulvinate (cushioned) scrobicu- 

 late (pitted) receptacle stripped of the florets, b An hermaphrodite floret 

 from the disk on its germen, which is crowned with a long hairlike pappua 

 (down): magnified, c A female floret from the ray with its germen : slightly 



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