among specimens from the same country, gathered by 
Salzmann, who found it on dry hills. 
We remark that the learned Botanist to whom we have 
just alluded, considers the whole of the plant which bears 
flowers as a form of inflorescence analogous to the cyme. 
But, in opposition to that opinion, we would venture to 
observe, that it is never the property of inflorescences to pro- 
pagate plants by cuttings, the leaf-buds of that part of a 
plant being either converted into flower- buds, or altogether 
dormant. This plant, on the contrary, could scarcely be 
increased if it were not by its flowering branches, for it 
often produces nothing else. We therefore prefer to con- 
sider the capitula only as the inflorescence. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society last summer. The plant had been received 
from the Royal Gardens of Berlin. 
JT E 
