ad instar percursa. Flosc. glabri, tequales, immerosi, infra Umbum deco- 

 lores, subdiapkani, mtcantes, elavalo-infundihutij'ortties, periphceriam versiis 

 recurvati, limbo patente bis brcviorc fauce cvm tubo simul su?nptd, laciniis 

 obtongis attermatis obtusittscnlis, Antherac castaneo-fusca, valvutis 5 minimis 

 obtusulis concoloribus apiculatce, basi obsolete cinarginat<e : fil. inelastica. 

 Stigmata palparum instar exserta, longissima, lilacina, Jiliformia, glabra, 

 int^ canaliculata, deorsum mbattenuata ct de infra medium usque ad basin 

 sulco latiore planiusculo candicantc puniceo-maryinato exarata ; stylus bre- 

 vior, albus. Germ, cuneato-cylindricum, sesquibrevius pappo, hirsjttum, 

 sulcato-striatum, pollens, stipite brevi capillaceo insidens: pappus plumoms, 

 serie simplici plurimus, coloratus, fauci Jtosculi (Equalis. Recept. planius- 

 cutum, glabrum, punctatum. 



A reference to the original sample in the Claytonian 

 Herbariunij proves our plant to belong to the scariosa of 

 Gronovius and Linnseus ; else the epithet " squarrosus " 

 applied by the latter to the caljrx would have left some 

 uncertainty. We still however suspect that " squarrosus " 

 has been used inadvertently for " scariosus;" though in 

 strictness neither term is correct, for it Is the bottom only 

 of the calyx that is slightly squarrose, and the top only 

 that is partially scariose; but it is an epithet applied by 

 Pluknet to that plant of his work, which has been deemed 

 by Linnseus specifically identical with scariosa, and which 

 must have suggested to him the name. 



We omit in our synonymy the L. scariosa of Curtis's 

 Magazine (No. 1709) believing it (as to the figure at least) 

 to be the L. sphwroidea of Michaux, in which the edges of 

 the leaves are smooth, the spike much longer, more nume- 

 rously flowered and shorter peduncled, the calyx nearly 

 globular, tenderer, and of a lighter green, with far broader 

 colourlessly and scarioscly bordered connivent interior leaf- 

 lets. The description, however, which is said to have been 

 taken from a different plant from that from which tlie 

 drawing was made, may probably relate to the present 

 species. 



The synonym adduced to scariosa by Linnseus from 

 Pluknet, we bolieve to belong to sphceroidea. The two seem 

 to have been also confused in the lianksian and Lamber- 

 tian Herbariums. 



Drawn last October from a plant in the collection of 

 Mr. Burcliell, at Fulham. We also saw several others in 

 the Nursei7 of Messrs. Colviil, at Chelsea. 



