drawings of objects of natural history preserved in the 
Museum at Paris, and continued down to this day. 
Our drawing was made in March last at Mr. Brookes's 
Nufsery, Ball's Pond, fh>m a pkai€ ttbout 5 feet in height. 
Stem simple, covered all over with purple prickle-like 
warts. Leaves seated on a long prickly round stalk, sheath- 
ing at its baSfe, cordate, palmate, 7-lobed ; the lobes lan- 
ceolate, serrate, nearly equal, covered beneath with a fine 
stellate ferruginous pubescence. Umbel compound ; the 
pmtial umbels' wHii firom 16 to' f 8 flowers each ; without 
an involucrum ; their peduncles smooth, dotted ; pedicels 
covered with a thin deciduous ferruginous* pubescence. 
Calyx nearfy entire, plaited. Petals quickly deciduous, 
Stamefis 5-9, inserted outside abroad discus. <%/e I» with 
many divisions at end. 
J. L. 
