Horticultural Society. With us it blossoms through most 
of the summer months, and is already become a general 
favourite in our flower borders. 
Descr, Stem erect, two to four feet high, much branch- 
ed and panicled above, clothed, as is the whole plant, with 
unctuous fetid hairs, many of which are tipped with globu- 
lar black glands. Leaves sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, the 
upper ones obscurely nerved, the lower ones larger and 
broader, with more evident parallel nerves, and a few trans- 
verse connecting ones. Panicle much branched, leafy. 
Flowers numerous, large, handsome. Involucre subglobose, _ 
of a nearly simple series of channelled, subulato-lanceolate 
scales, their points only spreading. Corollas of the ray ob- 
long, deeply and sharply three-cleft, yellow, with a blood- 
coloured spot at the base, bearing pistils only. Style short. 
Stigmas subulate: Achenia embraced by the scales of the 
involucre, obovato-oblong, laterally compressed ; disc ob- 
lique » pappus none. Filorets of the centre with abortive 
pistils, tubular, hairy below and at the apex. <Anthers 
protruded, as is the stigma, which is downy, and the seg- 
ments are combined. Receptacle conical, downy, bearing 
a row of scales only within the floret of the ray 
Fig. 1, Abortive Floret of the Disk. 2, Floret of the Ray, of which the 
lower part is embraced by the involucral Scale. 3, Achenium.— Magnified. 
