any further authority, or any indication of its origin, whence 

 we are led to suppose that it was cultivated in the Jardin des 

 Flantes of Pans, under the name originally given to it by 

 Keichardt. Our specimens were grown by Mr. Ware of 

 Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, with whom it flowered in 

 August of this year. 



Descr. A tall stout erect biennial, of a grey green colour, 

 thinly clothed with cobwebby pubescence. Stems strict 

 stout erect, deeply grooved, unbranched, leafy, as thick as 

 tlie thumb at the base. Leaves spreading horizontally, verv 

 large some a foot and a half long, on long or short petioles, 

 broadly oblong or ovate, cordate with a rounded tip • upper 

 gradually smaller, sessile, or shortly semi-amplexicaul and 

 decurrent on the stem, all minutely rough on both surfaces, 

 quite entire or obscurely sinuate, with a stout midrib, and 

 many horizontally spreading reticulating nerves. Peduncles 

 very numerous, axillary, solitary, erect, or suberect, two feet 



ln«f'i 7l -f T^' sim P leOT ™™ ^rked, with a small ob- 

 tuse eaf at its fork. Heads large. Involucre one and a half 



l\r er ' depressed-spherical, much contracted at 



r^l, n 7 ' Ti^f Wn; bracts with a s ^t quadrate 

 3™: ^reader simi-orbicular strongly ciliate hard 



ZT % J nGrVed *W™ d ^ which has no trace of a 

 T?Zt/i°/T m f s P re ? dill g mass, scarcely equalling the 



tlZt ui \ nVOl T e , ; Mght ^ eIlow - <*"**• with a long 



slender tube, and a tubular oblique limb; lobes very narrow" 



fete LT J Sh ° T k Sm0 , 0tl1 ; pap P US hairs ^ id > P*A about 

 twice as long as the achene.— J. B. H. 



Fig. 1. Bract of the involucre; 2, flower ; 3, stamens ,-att enlarged. 



