not unlike those of some of the Solidagos. The leaves 
have a strong aromatic odour, not unlike tansy. At Kew 
the plant requires the protection of a wall, but further 
south it would no doubt be quite hardy in the open. It 
is easily propagated from stem-cuttings, and it is quite 
the sort of shrub for collections of showy and interesting 
plants ; its habit of flowering so late in the year giving it 
a special value. 8. Douglast, a smaller flowered species, 
is also cultivated at Kew.” 
Deser.—Shrubby, growing to at least 6 to 8 ft..high in 
cultivation. Stem as much as 2 in. in diameter at the 
base, much branched upwards; flowering branches corym- 
bose, pendulous, tomentose, white. Leaves alternate, 
crowded, glabrescent, rather thick, linear, 1-3 in. long, 
acute. lower-heads very numerous, corymbose, shortly 
stalked, 5-flowered, narrow, about 2 in. long. Bracts of 
the involucre in about 6 series, lanceolate, acute, the 
lowest smallest, about 4 in. long. lowers yellow, all 
tubular. Corolla regular, 5-striped, lobes nearly erect, 
scarcely acute. Style-branches elongated, pubescent, much 
exserted, spreading. Achenes nearly cylindrical, hairy. 
FPappus of numerous, unequal bristles, the longest equal- 
ling the corolla-tube.-—W. Borrinc Hemstey. 
Fig. 1, a head of flowers; 2, a flower ; 3, a bristle of the pappus; 4, anthers; 
6, style-arms :—all enlarged. 
