off and placod in ,tlie house in water, when tliey will expand 

 completely, and last for a long time in beauty. We liave 

 taken the above technical description chiefly from a paper in 

 Hoffmann's " Pfiytographische Blatter," pul)Iishc(I at Got- 

 ting"en. The drawings was made at tlie nursery of Messrs. 

 Whitley and Co. FuUiam. 



Stem herbaceous, Tipright, straiii;ht, two feet or more in 

 height, round, hispid, brownish red, panicnlately branched; 

 branches numerous, fluted, hispid, axillary, spreatling', 

 leafy, simple or divided, stiff, terminated by one flower 

 each. Leaves scattered, numerous, sessile, linearly lanceo- 

 late and generally somewhat sputulate, reflex, sharp- 

 pointed, hispid, whitish underneath. Flowers of a deep 

 purplish blue, about an inch and an half across. Cali/x 

 roundish, squarrose, leajiefs linearly lanceolate, narrow, 

 glandularly ciliate, red at the tips, pointed, with a nerve 

 along the middle, inner ones thinner and narrower: florets 

 o/' Me ra(/ pistil-bearing, obvcrsely lanceolate, slightly con- 

 cave, 2-3-toothed plaitcdiy streaked, tube short, slightly 

 pubescent, greenish : Jlorets of the disk with stamens and 

 pistil, greenish yellow, clavate, Ihnh upriglitly spreading, 

 with short pointed segments slightly pubescent on the out- 

 side, tube slender, short, nearly the width of the faux, j^n- 

 thers deep yellow withbrownisi) purple streaks and pointed 

 tops of the same colour. Stigmas in the riuf greenish yellow, 

 linear, grooved', upright, forked, slanting, very slightly 

 pubescent; in the disk yellow, converging, spatulatc, pu- 

 bescent. G ennens ohXon^, with thick hair; pappus shovtcv 

 than the florets of tlic disk, when magnified somewhat 

 feathery. Receptacle naked, flattish, pitted, the pits bor» 

 clered by a sharply toothed memliranc. 



