Ciettanp, Esq., of Rosemount, near Belfast, in whose 
greenhouse it flowered in May, 1839. Notwithstanding the 
very unusual colour of the flowers for one of the Natural 
Order Composir#, I have little hesitation in referring it to 
the well-known Canary plant, the Srnecto Heéritieri of 
De Canpvotte, the old Crverarta lanata of our gardens, and 
long ago figured in an early number of this Magazine. The 
foliage is the same and the structure of the flowers ; but the 
colour of the blossoms is very different, and in our variety of 
a most unusual character. Composirz, with a white ray 
and yellow eye or disk, are common, as every one knows, 
but I have never before met with any having a white ray 
and a blue disk. De Canpotze in his observations on 
the Composirz (Prodr. y. 6. p.7,) remarks on the colour 
of the flowers, “ Corolle nunc xanthice (yellow being 
the type, but liable to pass into red or white, but never 
to blue), nunc cyanice (where blue is the type, but 
which may pass into red or white, never into yellow), 10 
eodem capitulo, aut homochrome seu discolores ; ubi disco- 
lores ligula semper cyanice et tubuli xanthici! imo tubull 
xanthici cum ligulati monstrosi evadunt, cyanici fiunt”” 
Not only in our plant is the lilac-coloured ray of the 
flower changed to white, and the deep lilac, or blood-red 
purple, of the ray changed to a very bright blue ; but 
the stigmas, which are deep orange in the original stock, 
are all also intensely blue and the anthers are purple-black. 
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Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk. 3, Stigmas:—mag- 
nified. 
