been generally fomur to cUymdle away with u9 in a very 

 short time, and is far from common in our gardens; in some 

 of which it is sheltered in a garden-pit during winter, wliile 

 in ■ others it is treated as a hardy plant, and grown in the 

 open horder. We are obliged to Mr. Lambert for the speci- 

 men which has afforded the present drawing; it came from 

 his seat at Boyton in November last. 



Root perennial, bulbous: stem simple, round, tinted, 

 Upright, furred, leafy. Leaves sessile, numerous, scattered 

 loosely in all directions, decreasing as they ascend upon the 

 stem, spreading, linear and slightly falcated, about a line 

 and a half broad, rather tapered at each end, midrib simple 

 sunk below the surface on both sides, as are the minute 

 glands with which they are thickly pitted, very shortly 

 pointed, almost smooth or with a few straggling hairs, 

 longer ones three inches in length or more. Spike cyTin- 

 drically elongated, upright, scattered, simple, numerous, 

 more or less close, somewhat leafy, flowering from the top 

 downwards. Flowers an inch long, subsessile with an ex- 

 tremely short thick furred peduncle, solitary, each from the 

 axil of a smallish linearly tapered mucronated externally 

 .furred leaf, which is longer than the calyx. Cafyx oblong, 

 narrow, squarrose, furred, green and rose-coloured ; leaflets 

 Jinearly lanceolate, long pointed and somewhat awned, nar- 

 row, outer ones many, shorter than the others, entirely 

 green, mner ones (G?) with a green oblong externally furred 

 unguis equal to the florets, and a rose-coloured membranous 

 Bubscariose lanceolate long pointed spreading blade, even 

 with the stigmas and smooth on both sides. Florets 5, tu- 

 bulous, funnelform, glitteringly and whitely frosted on the 

 outside, transversely wrinkled, elastic; faux rather inflated; 

 segments of the limb spreading, oblongly lanceolate, some- 

 times faintly tinged with pink, smooth on the inside, con- 

 cave, about three times as short as the faux and tube taken 

 together. Anthers blackish purple; pollen white. Style 

 not elastic; stigmas 2 ^ long, rose-coloured, clavately linear 

 patent, externally convex, channelled within and covered 

 with a dewy moisture, not furnished with the brush-like 

 pubescence at the back, by which in most of this order the 

 pollen is carried out of the anther of the florets of the disk, 

 Germen oblong, narrow, villous; pappus white, mimerous, 



f<?athered,. 



