squarrose; and occasionally the whole plant assumes the 

 appearance of A. laxus. 



A. eminens may be certainly known from all the other 

 species in the same section by its involucral leaves not only 

 being leafy, and more or less squarrose, but spreading very 

 much at the time the plant is in flower ; and also by the 



taper-pointed figure of the floral leaves. 



a 



very 

 which < 

 heads. 



rly allied 



h 



A. squarrosu 



shorter involucral scales, 



about the florets, and much smaller flowe 



This plant is a hardy perennial, growing often as high 



" feet, and bearing in the latter end of September a 



profusion of bright lilac flowers 

 folius in the gardens. 



It is often called 



J. L 



