but it wants the wool in which the flower-buds of that species 
are enveloped. 
What its native country may be I am unable to ascertain ; 
it is said by Reichenbach to have received its name from 
Professor Besser; but it is not noticed in that writer's Enu- 
meration of the plants of Podolia, Bessarabia, and other 
dismemberments of the ancient kingdom of Poland, nor do 
I find a trace of it in any book except Reichenbach’s Enume- 
ration, above quoted. 
I have only seen it in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it was received from the late Mr. Fischer, of 
the Gottingen garden, under the name here adopted. 
It is a very showy hardy perennial, growing three or four 
feet high in any good garden soil, and flowering freely from 
June to August. 
It is increased freely by division of the old plant when 
in a dormant state, or by seeds, which should be sown in the 
spring; the seedlings will not flower before the second 
season. 
It is rather a straggling plant if left to nature; but if 
tied up regularly to a stake, it makes a beautiful object in a 
flower garden. : 
