the plants he had enumerated were left to be ascertained 
only by access to unpublished documents. Within these last 
few years this want has been in part supplied by Prof. Des- 
fontaines, who has published engravings of a judicious 
selection of the drawings, and descriptions from the original 
specimens of the Herbarium, in the Annals of the Museum 
of Natural History at Paris, Among the figures is one of 
the present species, of which there is a specimen from 
Tournefort's Herbarium in that of Sir Joseph Banks. 
It now makes a first appearance in the collections of 
this country, having been raised by Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne from seed received through Berlin from 
Moscow, at which last place several extensive botanic gar- 
dens have been lately formed by some of the principal in- 
habitants. Through these means many rare and curious 
oriental vegetables, well suited to our climate, might be 
easily obtained. 
We are not certain whether the species is perennial or 
biennial. We know of none that approaches it in the 
abundance of bloom. The foliage is about three inches 
high, of a glaucous or blueish white hue; thinly hispid, 
with upright hairs, a longer bristle terminating each lobe of, 
the leatlets of the pinnated leaves, these turn yellow in the 
dried plant. The stem is from one to two feet high, of the 
thickness of a common pen, and branched from near the 
base to the summit, smooth or with a few straggling 
bristles, branches often divided. Corolla three inches or 
more across, salmon-coloured. Germen green, smooth, 
oval-oblong, narrowing towards the base: stigma violet- 
purple, conical, varying from with 4 to with G rays. 
Stamens pale straw-colour. 
The drawing was made iu June, at the garden of the 
above-mentioned nurserymen, in the King's Road, Fulham. 
