: TAB, 5577. 
EN GELMANN IA PINNATIFIDA: 
Native of the Prairies of N. America. 
Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER. 
Genus EncELMannia, Jorr. et Gr.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p.351.) 
ENGELMANNIA pinnatifida; herba perennis, erecta, pubescens v. hirsuta, foliis 
alternis petiolatis oblongis sinuato-pinnatifidis, lobis obtusis integris dentatis 
v. lobulatis, capitulis corymboso-paniculatis longe pedunculatis radiatis hetero- 
gamis, fl. radii 2 1-seriatis fertilibus, disci ¢ sterilibus, involucri bracteis 
2-3-seriatis laxis extimis subfoliaceis coriaceis intimis concavis foliaceo- 
appendiculatis, receptaculo plano paleis flores involventibus onusto, ligulis 
elongatis aureis integris, stylo bipartito, fl. disci corolla infundibulari, stylo 
elongato indiviso, acheniis radii obovatis compressis exalatis 2-aristatis, disci 
filiformibus sterilibus. é 
-E. pinnatifida, Torr. e¢ Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 283; Torr. in Marcy Exped. 
Bot. tab. 11. 
ANGELANDRA pinnatifida, Hndl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 69; Walp. Rep. 
vol. il. pp. 609, 976, vol. vi. p. 149; Anz. vol. ii. p. 849. 
A herb belonging to the same great American tribe of 
Composite as the Sunflower, named in honour of the veteran 
United States’ botanist, Dr. Engelmann, of St. Louis in 
Missouri. It is a native of the prairie region of the central 
United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, where it ex- 
tends from the latitude of Canada to that of Texas. I 
have myself collected it in Colorado, growing in dry, grassy 
places, where, however, the heads were much smaller than 
in specimens from further south, and than those cultivated 
at Kew; on the other hand, I have seen cultivated speci- 
mens with the rays much broader and rather shorter than 
those here figured. Seeds were received at Kew, collected 
in New Mexico by Dr. Parry, the plants from which flowered 
In the second year, and have proved perfectly hardy, having 
_ been unprotected in the Herbaceous Grounds during the last 
Severe winter. It flowers in the month of July. The 
aveGustT lst, 1881]. 
