presented by the late Mr. Ball; it flowered in an open 
border of the Herbaceous Ground at Kew in the end 
of May, 1889, and attained a much greater stature than it 
'. does in the Atlas. 
Dgscr.. Perennial. Stems many from the rootstock, 
one to two feet high, simple or sparingly branched, slender, 
and as well as leaves and peduncles hispidly setose with 
long white spreading hairs. Leaves radical or radical 
and cauline, six to eight inches long, oblanceolate, sub- 
acute or obtuse, pinnatifidly lobed and lobulate, rarely 
pinnatipartite, lobules obtuse, bright green above, paler 
beneath ; upper smaller, sessile, lower contracted into a 
petiole. Peduncles three to six inches long, slender; buds 
drooping. Flowers two to three inches in diameter. 
Sepals two-thirds of an inch long, hispid. Petals very 
broadly cuneately obovate, margins undulate, orange-red. 
or scarlet. Stamens rather short, not very numerous. 
Ovary shortly clavate; stigmatic rays six to eight, not 
exceeding in length the crown of the ovary. Capsule one _ 
to one and a half inches long, clavate, six- to eight-ribbed, 
glabrous ; stigmatic rays dark purple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, capsule :—both enlarged. 
