ones, of the same shape, are rosulate, five to six inches long. Jn- 
volucre of a few small but unequally sized sessile leaves or dracts. 
Umbel compound, of many rays, the primary ones bearing three 
to four, secund, crest-like, scorpioid spz/es, formed of the closely 
imbricated, two-ranked flowers, white, beautifully tinged with 
purple, and dotted with the dark-purple exserted anthers. 
Flowers nearly sessile on the spike, generally with a small drac- 
teole (a third abortive sepal?), scariose with a serrated edge. 
Calyx of two, erect, orbiculari-cordate, unequal, scariose sepals, 
much larger than the corolla. Corolla of four, red, apiculated, 
ovate, erecto-patent petals. Stamens three, purple: filaments 
longer than the petals and sepals. Anther purple, oblong. Ovary 
broad-oval: ovules few, four to six, erect from the bottom of the. 
cell, and elevated upon seed-stalks. 
___ Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla, including stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil. 4. 
Ovary cut through vertically, showing the seeds :—magnified. 
