1839, flowered very abundantly during July and August 
following, forming an exceedingly attractive border plant. 
The species has proved to be perennial, pushing, in the 
year after flowering, many branches from the lower part of | 
the stem. It has not ripened seed at Edinburgh. It has 
much affinity with the H. macranthum of Bentuam, but Is 
distinguished by its large capitula, pure white, cup-shaped 
involucre, and perennial root. It is in the highest degree 
worthy of cultivation. [Mrs. Wray of Cheltenham has also 
kindly communicated fine specimens of this plant.—Eb. ] 
Descr. Stem above three feet and a half high, some- 
what woody, erect, simple below, corymbose at the top, 
green. Leaves (seven inches long, nearly two broad) gradu- 
ally smaller upwards, scattered, as well as the stem, rough, 
without pubescence, sessile, the lower ones obovate and 
much attenuated at the base, the upper more nearly ellipti- 
cal, green on both sides, with a strong middle rib, and four 
to six principal veins extending nearly to the apex of the 
leaf, which is entire in the edges. Capitula terminal, on 
elongated, subsimple, corymbose branches. Involucre large, 
scariose, of snowy whiteness, spreading into a hemisphere ; 
scales elliptical, very numerous, imbricated, the outer and 
inner the smallest, concave, none of them radiating, the 
inner green at the base. Florets very numerous, yellow, 
cylindrical, all hermaphrodite, five-toothed. Stamens in- 
serted near the base of the corolla, the apices of the anthers 
subexserted. Stigmata revolute, truncated, hairy at the 
apices ; style colourless, filiform, its apex projecting above 
the stamens. Germen glabrous, crowned with a rough 
pappus, almost plumose, as long as the corolla. Receptacle 
naked, pitted. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Ripe Achenium. 3. Pappus, separated from the 
Achenium. 4. Portion of the Pappus to show the union of the sete at 
their base :—magnified. : 
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