that plant, which differs in the broader leaves, the lower 
opposite, the longer petioles, and the loose invol. bracts. 
H. giganteus has been cultivated in the Royal Gardens 
probably from their first establishment, but the specimen 
here figured was from the rich Herbaceous collection of 
A. B. Freeman Mitford, C.B., of Batsford Park, Moreton- 
in-Marsh, Worcestershire. It flowers in September. 
Descr.—Rootstock creeping, with fusiform cylindric roots. 
Stem three to ten feet high, strict, erect, red-brown, sub- 
corymbosely branched, and more or less hispidly hairy above, 
more glabrous beneath. Leaves three to five inches long, 
alternate, subsessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, serrate or nearly entire, penni-nerved, base cuneate, 
pale green, sparsely hispidulous above, more so beneath. 
Heads two and a half to three and a half inches broad. 
Involueral bracts linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, loosely 
imbricate, dark green, hispid. Bracteoles of receptacle 
with entire acute pubescent tips. Flowers of the ray fifteen 
to twenty ; ligule about an inch long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
rather pale yellow, tips acute, entire. Disk flowers narrow, 
puberulous, rather darker yellow than the ray.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Involucral bracts; 2, achene and base of ray-flower; 3, scale of 
receptacle; 4, flower of disk; 5, stamens; 6, arms of style :—all enlarged; 
7, reduced view of whole plant. 
