finds it abundant in some parts of Kentucky: and Mr. 
Drummonp gathered it both at Rio Brazos and San Felipe 
de Austin, in Texas, from whence he sent numerous speci- 
mens and seeds. From the latter, Mr. Murray has raised 
plants, which blossomed in a cool frame and in the open 
air, during the months of June and July, in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden. Micnaux was assuredly correct in refer- 
ring the plant to the Genus Betuis, with which it accords 
in every essential. particular. Mr. Arnorr, indeed, is of 
opinion that this plant is the same as the Bracuycome 
xanthocomoides, Less. Comp. p. 192, and Linnea, v. 9, 
p. 265, from Mexico; but the Berxis aculeata, and B. 
ciliaris of Laxiu., are true genuine species of BracnycomE, 
and the fruit in them is totally different from that of our 
BELLs. 
Descr. Root annual, small. Stems rarely simple and 
unbranched, generally they are branched, and frequently 
many arise from the same root and are spreading or ascend- 
ing, sparingly downy or hairy, slender; branches filiform. 
Leaves mostly remote, oblong or spathulate, entire, the 
upper ones nearly sessile, the lower ones broader, almost 
obovate and more decidedly petiolate: all of them slightly 
downy or hairy. Peduncles terminal upon the stem or 
brane es, elongated, naked, single-flowered : flowers droop- 
ing before expansion. Involucre of about twenty equal 
leaflets, almost entirely in a single series, linear, very acute, 
the margins pale and diaphanous. Corollas of the Ray four- 
teen to twenty, ligulate, white, with a purplish tinge, espe- 
cially on the outside, entire or two-toothed at the apex. 
Corollas of the Dise five-cleft, remarkably contracted at the 
base. Anthers without spurs. Lobes of Stigma ovate, erect. 
Achenium pyriform, on a pitted receptacle, hairy, slightly 
compressed. 
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Fig. 1. Floret of Disc. 2. Ditto of the Ray. 3. Receptacle and Involucre. 
4. Achenium —magnified. € 
