Our drawing was made 



perfection for fully three months. 



in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Stem erect, 2 feet high, round, branched, covered all 

 over with glandular hairs. Leaves irregularly twice or 



thrice pinnatifid, smooth, with linear-lanceolate subfalcate 

 segments, often cut on one side ; the upper palmate, with 

 linear segments. Flowers terminal, in a naked, long- 

 stalked spike, which is branched at the base, densely 

 capitate, and ovate. Calyx inferior, obconical, mem- 

 branous, angular, with an erect, 5-cleft limb, ovate green . 

 segments, with a membranous margin, and a single vein 

 in the middle, much shorter than the corolla. 



Corolla 



hypogynous, blue, funnel-shaped ; limb erect, 5-parted, 

 with linear, acute segments. Stamens 5, inserted into the 

 sinuses of the corolla, than which they are shorter. Anthers 



blue. 



oval, bursting lengthwise. 



Ovarium very small, 



surrounded by an obscure annular disk, roundish, 3-celled, 

 with several peltate ovula in each cell. Style filiform, 

 shorter than the stamens. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ob- 

 long, covered by the persistent calyx, oval, papery, 

 3-celled, 3-valved, with the valves carinate in the middle 

 of the inside, the keels being opposite to the angles of a 

 separate 3-winged axis. Seeds 4 in each cell, oblong, 

 angular on account of their mutual compression, with an 

 epidermis abounding in a tenacious mucilage, which readily 

 dissolves in water. 



J. L. 



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