the seeds were sent to Kew by Dr. Engelmann, is also from 
Texas, and has the leaves as much divided as that just mentioned, 
but the segments can hardly be called “narrow linear.” It ap- 
pears to be a hardy perennial, flowering in July. 
Descr. From a central root several branches, eighteen inches 
to two feet long, radiate, lymg upon the ground, the extremities 
assurgent, hairy, as is more or less every part of the plant ; hairs 
of the stems and branches and petioles and calyces patent. Leaves 
all on long petioles, especially those from near the root, cordate in 
outline, deeply 3—-5-fid ; of the upper ones the lobes are subtrifid, 
the lateral ones on the lower leaves are subpedate ; the lowest, 
and especially the radical ones, are multifid, the segments broad 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute and submucronulate with a soft 
point. Peduncles longer than the leaves, solitary, erect, numerous, 
bearing a single large showy flower. Jnvoluere of three linear- 
lancolate spreading green leaflets, about two-thirds the length of 
the calyx. Calyx very hairy, divided nearly to the base into 
five, lanceolate, acuminate, spreading sepals. Petals five, broad- 
cuneate, quite truncated at the apex, and erose, longer than 
the calyx, deep red-purple, with a cream-coloured large spot at 
the claw, forming a yellowish-white circle or disc to the flower. 
Column of stamens rather short, and, as well as the capitate 
anthers, white. Style as long as the staminal tube: stigmas 
numerous, filiform-subulate, long, spreading. Carpels (immature) 
“lunate, pointless.” 
