with the Fuller's Teasel: yet such is the case. It is 

 entirely an Oriental Genus. The original species, found 

 in the Levant by Tournefort, is, in many respects, nearly 

 allied to this, but the leaves are decidedly smaller, and the 

 bracteas much narrower; and both are far more spiny, and 

 the verticels of flowers are much more distant. The lobes 

 of the calyx are entire or bifid in both species, and I do 

 not in any way see how the M. Wallichiana above quoted 

 of Dr. Hoyle, is different from this. That gentleman's 

 M. Coulteriana of the same work, seems to have the long 

 coarse spines of M. Persica. 



Our M. longifolia was discovered by Dr. Wallich in 

 Gossarn Than. Dr. Royle found it at Mussooree and on 

 Choor, as well as on the mountains of Cashmere. I also 

 possess specimens from Lady Dalhousie, gathered on 

 Whultoo, in the Himalayas, at an elevation of 10,673 feet 

 above the level of the sea. Our flowering-specimens were 

 kindly sent from the Belfast Botanic Garden, by Mr. Fer- 

 guson, in August, 1843. 



Descr. Stem herbaceous, stout, striated, hairy upwards. 

 Leaves very long, especially the lower ones, linear-oblong, 

 sinuato-pinnatifid, their segments acute, spinoso -serrate ; 

 they gradually become shorter upwards, and are converted, 

 as it were, into whorls of large, hairy bracteas, which sur- 

 round the copious verticels of flowers, and are equally 

 spinous with the leaves. Involucres on short stalks, 

 single-flowered, tubular, striated, downy, crowned with 

 two large and several smaller subulate spines. Calyx 

 jointed on a short flat pedicel, within the involucre, tubular, 

 cut below the middle into two broad, ovate, entire or 

 usually bifid lips. Corolla with a long, curved, white, 

 slender tube, thrice the length of the calyx, and an irregular, 

 five-lobed, spreading, deep-rose-coloured limb. Stamens 

 two, inserted on the upper side of the mouth of the corolla. 

 Anthers oblong, oblique at the base ; these Dr. Coulter 

 considered to be four combined into two: while Dr. 

 Lindley looked upon a three-lobed gland at the base of the 

 style, as representing the three missing stamens : but two 

 ot them, in a very reduced and abortive state, actually exist 

 on the opposite side of the faux to the two fertile ones, 

 and a little low er down : the lowermost gland is probably 

 the fifth stamen. 



Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla, laid open. 2. Involucre and Calyx. 3. 

 Calyx: — magnified. 



