at Tab. 1 9S7 of this work, which however is very different, as 

 may be seen by a comparison with the figure just mentioned; 

 that is moreover a small herbaceous plant, while this is tall and 

 with quite a woody appearance below. It flowered in our stove 

 in September, 1S63. 



Dkscr. Our cultivated plants attain a height of two and more 

 feet. The item thick as a man's finger, the lower half or nearly 

 so brown, quite woody in appearance and bare of leaves, gra- 

 dually more herbaceous upwards, and there clothed with close- 

 placed, spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly tortuose lee 

 with a few erect patent veins, the base semiamplexicaul and 

 slightly decurrent at the margins. The summit is crowned with 

 a large convex corymb, six to eight inches across, bearing co- 

 pious Jhwers [capitula) nestled as it were among the nameroui 

 bracts or Moral leaves of the peduncles. These Jlntrrrs are an 

 inch across, quite globose. Involucre white, sometimes rather a 

 bright yellow, scariose, of numerous, acute, oblong, or subspathu- 

 late scales, green at the base, closely imbricated, the innermost 



ones not in any way constituting a ray, hut rather incurved. 

 The centre of the fairer or capitulum c<>n>titutr> a Hat disk, of a 

 bright yellow colour, formed of innumerable tubular //ore/*, all 



attaining the same level. Hairs of the /uz/j/jum slightly thickened 

 upwards and -cabrous, of the same length as the corolla. 



Fig. 1. Scale of the involucre. 2. Tubular floret hair of the pappus : — magnifed. 



