two or three species, all Mediterranean, that are referable 

 to it. 



G. grande is not a common garden plant, the specimen 

 here figured was obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 from Mr. T. Smith, Nurseryman, Newry, in August, 

 1902. By a curious coincidence only a few days previously 

 it was sent to me by a friend in Norfolk, procured from 

 the garden of Mr. James H. Reeve, of North Walsham. 

 It is perfectly hardy, flowers in autumn, and is a striking 

 accession to the herbaceous garden. 



Descr. — A very stout, erect, simple or sparingly 

 branched, hispidly hairy or nearly glabrous perennial 

 herb, two to three feet high. Stem leafy. Leaves six to 

 eight inches long, sessile, lyrately oblong or linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, coarsely crenate, contracted in the middle some- 

 times for four or five inches, and dilated at the very 

 base into broad, pinnatifidly-lobed, spreading auricles. 

 Flower-heads terminal, solitary, long-ped uncled, very large, 

 one and a half to two inches broad, and so depressed as 

 to be disciform, and only one-third or one-fourth as thick 

 as broad; peduncle very stout, carrying a few small, 

 deformed leaves. Involucre saucer-shaped ; bracts innu- 

 merable, subulate-lanceolate, herbaceous below the middle, 

 thin and brown above it. Receptacle very broad, flat, 

 granulate. Florets forming a compact, slightly convex 

 head, most densely packed, as long as the invol. bracts, 

 golden-yellow, all tubular and bisexual. Corolla almost 

 campanulate above the middle, lobes five, acute. Aclienes 

 stout, sub-cylindric, curved, sulcate, obliquely truncate 

 at the base, produced above into a unilateral coriaceous 

 concave, persistent scale, about one-third as long as the 

 corolla,— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, flower ; 2, stamens ; 3, style-arms : — all enlarged. 



