A fine stately plant, better suited, however, to a shrub- 
bery than to the borders of a small garden, on account of 
its great size and luxuriant foliage. Although introduced 
into our gardens so long ago as the year 1739, when it was, 
according to the Hortus Kewensis, cultivated by Mr. Puizip 
Miter, it has never been figured in any publication of our 
country. It is a native of woody places in the vallies of 
the Bannatian and Croatian Mountains : and I also possess 
specimens, through the kindness of Dr. Fiscner, which 
were gathered at Guriel on the eastern shore of the Black 
Sea, a province of Georgia. It is quite hardy, and bears 
its copious blossoms in July and August. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stems herbaceous, many from 
the same root, erect, four to six feet high, simple, or pani- 
cled only at the top with the flowers, stout, hairy, rounded, 
obscurely furrowed. Flowers very large, often a foot in 
length, alternate, the lower ones cordate and petiolate, the 
upper gradually smaller, sessile and ovate, or even lanceo- 
late, all of them more or less acuminated, coarsely serrated, 
pubescenti-scabrous, dark green above, paler beneath, co- 
piously and reticulatedly veined. Peduncles long, thick- 
ened upwards, naked or bearing one or two small leaves. 
Involucre of many spreading, oblongo-lanceolate scales, the 
outer ones larger, leaf-like, and more or less reflexed. Re- 
ceptacle chaffy, with numerous subulate scales. Florets of 
the ray, undoubtedly not in a single, but in several (2—3) 
series, very numerous: Corollas narrow-linear. Florets of 
the centre tubular. Akenium (immature) oblong, crowned 
with a minute, jagged cup. 
r xe 1. Central Floret. 2. Part of a Floret of the Circumference : magni- | 
ed. 
