same with the one he has referred to іп Mr. Lambert’s 
Herbarium. 
We have seen no figure of this gay flower in any work, 
except the diminished uncoloured engraving in the dutch 
publication we have cited above. Yet the species has con- 
tinned very generally to enliven our colléctions, at the close 
of each succeeding year, from that of 1710 4o the present. 
: A perfectly hardy perennial, thriving fo almost any 
Situation. Stem from seven to eight YA kigh,- 
brownish red, bispid, flexnose above and divided 
loose broad fastigiant panicle of simple iia ao 
branches. Leaves cordately Ay stemelasping, I linear-lanceolate, 
narrow, three inches or more in length, gradually diminish- 
ing, subhispidly villous; lobes at the base d Flowers 
hrgísh, disposed at the end of the branches in few-flowered 
close corymbs; pedencles very short. Calyx campanulate; 
deaflets.in few ranks, green or party-coloured, Tanveolately 
linear, pointed, yillous, equal to, or er than the disk 
of the flower. Ray va from deep blue to purplish red. 
Florets of the disk yellowish, with a short brown-purple 
limb; segments ovate. pointed. Anthers enclosed. Stigmas 
2, yellow, linear, divergent. Germen silky, oblong: hair 
of the pappus or crown inclined to tawny. 
` The drawing was made in November last, at Mene. 
Whitley, Brames, and Milnes, in the King's “Read, Par- 
son's Green, Fulham. 
ст“ eal 
A floret of tlie disk. 5 A floret of he вау. ~ Hh: 
екімей feciptaclé deprived of all the Sordo, nad Simected vérticafly. 
