Tas. 5281. 
ECHINACEA ancusTIFOLIA. 
Narrow-leaved Echinacea. 
Nat. Ord. Compostt#.—SyNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum ; fl. radii neutris, longe ligu- 
latis, 1-serialibus ; disci hermaphroditis, regulariter 5-fidis ; ¢udo subnullo, fauce 
nuda; limbi dentibus erectis. Involucrum 3-seriale, squamis lanceolatis ciliat‘s. 
Receptaculum ovatum ; paleis rigidis, superne cartilagineis ; flores disci superan- 
tibus onustum. Séaminum filamenta ex ima corolla orta. Styli rami appendi- 
culis semilanceolatis superati. Achenia tetragona, obpyramidata, crassa, pappo 
irregulariter lacero subcoroniformi decidue coronata.—Herbe Boreali- Americane, 
perennes. Folia radicalia petiolata, caulina alterna, sessilia, serrata aut integerrima. 
Rami superne nudi, monocephali. Capitula ampla ; ligulis purpureis, 2-3-dentalis, — 
1-2 poll. longis ; fl. disci obscure virescentibus. De Cand. 
Ecurnacea angustifolia ; foliis omnibus lineari-lanceolatis hispidis integerrimis, 
radicalibus longe petiolatis 3-nerviis, caulinis sessilibus. 
Ecutnacea angustifolia. De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 354. Asa Gray, Man. of Bot. 
Illust. p. 214, Chapman, Fl. of the Southern United States, p. 226. 
The genus, like Rudbeckia, with which it was associated by 
Linneus and the older botanists (having been separated by 
Meench), is peculiar to the Southern United States, scarcely ad- - 
vancing so far south as Mexico proper. The present species has — 
perhaps its northern limit:in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Ber- 
landier first detected it near Austin, in Texas, and his specimens 
are described by De Candolle. Our living plant was sent to us 
by Mr. Leeds, of Manchester, having been reared by Mr. Ross, 
of Smedley, near that town, from seeds collected by Mr. Bourne 
in Iowa. 
The numerous long purple rays (and they vary from fourteen 
to twenty, the whole flower measuring nearly six inches across) 
recommends the plant for cultivation in tufts, in mixed flower- 
borders. The height is two to three feet; the stem simple, par- 
tially clothed with long, soft, spreading hairs ; flowers solitary, 
the stalk is swollen just beneath the capitulum. Zzvolucre with 
spreading scales. Corollas of the ray quite sterile: ligule very 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1861. 
