inhabitant of Nepal, and S. glauca of Buenos Ayres. The 
present plant, a native of California, discovered by Mr. . 
Dovetas, and first cultivated and distributed by the Horti- 
cultural Society, is, I have no doubt, correctly referred by 
Professor Linptry to the same Genus. It flowers, like the 
Asters, in the latter end of the summer and in the autumn, 
and is equally with the Aster entitled to the appellation of 
Michaelmas Daisy. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, a foot and a 
half high, rounded, striated, glabrous, erect, branched up- 
wards in a corymbose manner. Leaves sessile, oblong, 
acute, entire, ciliated at the margin, the rest glabrous, 
dark green, marked with nerves, which commence near the 
base and run upwards, nearly parallel with the midrib : the 
radical leaves spathulate, tapering into long, slender stalks. 
Flowers corymbose. Peduncles single-flowered. Flowers 
(or capitula) large, handsome. Involucre hemispherical, 
of numerous imbricated, narrow, linear-subulate, downy 
scales. Florets of the ray purple, numerous, of several 
series, exceedingly narrow. Those of the disk yellow. 
