Root fibrous. Stem, seldom we believe rising above three 

 feet in height, as well as the foliage of a full deep green. 

 Upon attentive inspection, a whitish pile will be perceived 

 to spread itself more or less over the whole plant, but more 

 copiously on the stem peduncles and calyx. Umbels up- 

 right, rather numerously but not crowdedly flowered ; bloom 

 scarlet and saffron-coloured. Plants of it last with us three 

 or four years, but after the second year become naked, and 

 do not produce so many flowers as at first. So that it is 

 best to keep up a succession of them, which may be easily 

 done by seed. The mould in which they are planted should 

 be rich; the pots kept constantly in the tan-bed, and water 

 supplied very sparingly in the winter. 



Professor Jacquin, to whom so much is clue in the eluci- 

 dation of the structure and economy of the stamens and 

 pistils of this natural order, has displayed in his Miscellanea 

 Austriaca those parts in the flower of this species by very 

 detailed and clear dissections. By these the mode, in which 

 the pollen-masses are taken up from the cells of the anthers 

 and held by the double thread that issues from the corpuscle 

 at each angle of the pentagonal stigma, is well charac- 

 terized, and reminds us of the wav in which a ma 



id holds a substance within its influence. They are 

 pended by pairs, like the drops of ear-rings, one at 

 of each thread, each lifted from the cell of a dif- 



ferent a 



Cultivated in 1692 in the Hampton Court Garden. Blooms 

 from June to October. Varies with white flowers. 



The drawing was made from a specimen with which Mr. 

 Edwards was favored by Lady Aylesford, from her collec- 

 tion at Stanmore. 



a The calyx, h The centre-piece of the flower deprived of the five 

 cowl-shaped leaflets that form the stamineous crown. tOne of these leaf- 

 lets detached, d An outline of the unripe follicle or univalvular fruit, in 

 the state it was found on the plant from which the drawing of the flower* 

 was made. 







