eration, was discovered by Mr. Nurrat in the Red River 
Territory, by Bertenprer at Villa de Austin in Texas, and 
by Drummonp in Galveston Bay of the same country. It was 
sent to the subscribers to the latter Naturalist in his third 
Texas Collection, n. 174, and seeds having been likewise 
transmitted from Galveston, they have succeeded, and the 
plants have flowered in July and August, in a cool frame of 
the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The species, it must be con- 
fessed, nearly approaches the M. lanceolata, which Dr Can- 
poe has described, (erroneously, so far as my authentic 
specimens will enable me to judge,) as having obovate 
leaves ; but I think it is really distinct, having much nar- 
rower scales to the involucre, and quite linear ones on the 
receptacle. De Canpouze justly compares the plant to an 
ArmertiA, and a number of them cultivated close together 
have a very pretty effect to the eye. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stems tufted, a foot or more 
high, simple, leafy only below, the rest quite naked, striat- 
ed, slightly downy, especially upwards. Leaves lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, three-nerved, entire, the 
lowest one tapering into a long slender stalk, the upper 
ones nearly sessile. Head of flowers solitary, large, convex. 
Involucre of many linear-lanceolate, nearly equal scales, in 
about two rows. Florets all tubular, five-cleft and deeply 
so, rose colour, afterwards white, downy externally. Ache- 
nium obovate, with five rough angles. Pappus of five 
broad, ovato-acuminate, serrated, membranous scales. An- 
ther-tube considerably protruded, brown. Scales of the re- 
ceptacle linear, much shorter than the flower. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower more adyanced, with the Corolla withering. 
8. Achenium and Pappus :—magnified. 
