there accords sufficiently well with ours. We prefer adopting 
Otto’s name, rather than encumber the system with new but 
doubtful species. Our plant is very luxuriant, owing probably 
to richness of soil. The peduncles are a foot and a half long ; 
the lower leaves are eight to nine inches long, with pinnze one 
and a half to two and a half inches, and an inch to an inch and 
a half broad. The colour of the flowers is a deep purple blood- 
colour, with a good deal the habit of a small single-flowered 
Dahlia. This plant is best preserved in a greenhouse in the 
winter, and turned into the open border in the summer. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Floret of the disc. 3. Awn of the pappus :— 
magnified. 
