this DanuiA, a native of Mexico, whence its seeds, accord- 
ing to Professor Linptey, were obtained, by Grorce Fre- 
DERICK Dickson, Esq., who presented them to the Horticul- 
tural Society of London, and stated them to be from the 
subfrigid districts of the country. It isa handsome species 
of much humbler growth than the Danuta variabilis, and 
the foliage is less rank and weedy. It flowers in Autumn. 
Descr. Root perennial, consisting of comparatively 
small, but thickish, descending, branching fibres. Stem 
herbaceous, striated or even sulcate, green, tinged with 
purple, glabrous, branched, fistulose, three to four feet 
high. Leaves glabrous, glossy ; the lower ones bipinnate, 
the leaflets more or less ovate, inciso-serrate, or almost pin- 
natifid : the upper ones pinnatifid, the laciniz incised, the 
uppermost linear ; all of them with the rachis winged. Pe- 
duncles axillary and terminal, frequently branched. Exte- 
rior involucre green, of five linear, or subspathulate, spread- 
ing leaflets : aner of about eight broad, ovate ones, mar- 
gined with brown. Florets of the ray about eight, broadly 
ovate, deep lilac purple, with five lines or striae. Disk deep 
purple : the stamens and styles and stigmas orange yellow. 
