The drawing was made from a specimen kindly sent us 
by Mr. Lambert from Boyton House, his seat in Wiltshire, 
and had been raised from seed received from Mexico, where 
the species was first observed by Messrs. Humboldt and Bon- 
pland. It may be considered as a hardy greenhouse plant. 
We have been guided, in regard to the name of the 
genus, by the following passage in Mr. Brown’s learned and 
instructive tract on the natural order to which the plant 
belongs, published in the Linnean Transactions. 
* GniNDELIA, described by Willdenow in the Transac- 
“ tions of the Natural History Society of Berlin for 1807, 
* and subsequently in his Enumeratio Plantarum Horti 
= Berolinensis, flowered in Kew Gardens for the first time 
* in 1815, when I bad an opportunity of examining it, and 
“ of determining its very near affinity with Donia, a genus 
“ proposed in the 2d edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and 
“ adopted by Mr. Pursh in bis Flora of North America: the 
“ principal distinction between these two genera consisting 
“in a difference of the number of radii of the pappus, 
** which in Grinpeuia is described by Willdenow as of two 
* rays, and according to my observations has more fre- 
** quently one only. But as even in рома the number of 
“rays, though indefinite, is variable, and the structure of 
** the pappus is very nearly similar in both genera, which in 
* all other respects agree, it may be perhaps expedient to 
* unite them under the name of GRINDELIA, Which was first 
* in order of publication.” 
Stem from one and a half to two feet high, suffrutescent 
at the lower part. Leaves scattered, distant, halfstemclasp- 
ing, larger about 3 inches long and $ of an inch broad, 
paudurately oblong, somewhat roughened, villous and 
more shaggily so along the nerves, nettedly veined, shortly 
pointed, cordate at the base. Flowers yellow, solitary, 
terminal, with short or nearly obsolete peduncles. Calyx 
herbaceous, squarrose; leaflets linearly lanceolate, interior 
ones subviscid, smooth, ciliately serrate. Florets of the ray 
rolling back as they fade; tube slender, greenish, 2 or 3 
times shorter than the germen, which is oblong, smooth, 
and rather angular: pappus of one or two smooth caducous 
bristles: florets of the disk clavately cylindrical, yellow; 
smooth, 4 times as long as the germen; limb several times 
shorter than the faux, with sharpish upright segments. Re- 
ceptacle pitted, membranously toothed, convex. 
