their collector Mr. Lobb. It proves perfectly hardy, and is well 
worthy a place in every garden. The flowers are large, beau- 
tifully fringed, and of a delicate pale-purple colour, with deep 
orange-coloured anthers: these flowers subtended by bracts and 
floral leaves, quite resembling those of the Morina Persica. The 
plant blossoms in July in the Exeter Nursery, whence our plant 
here figured was derived. We have Coulterian and Douglasian 
specimens in our Herbarium from California Proper, and others 
from Los Angelos de Santa Barbara, from Mr. Nuttall, gathered 
by Mr. Gambell. 
Descr. Root fusiform, perennial. Stem one foot to one and 
a half foot high, erect, four-angled and striated, very woolly, 
branching at the base. eaves all radical, oblong-spathulate, 
petiolate, sinuate, the lobes acute, spinuloso-serrate, cobwebby, 
densely woolly beneath. Jowers terminal, in large, dense 
pseudo-whorls ; the lower pseudo-whorl generally distant from 
the rest. Bracts and floral-leaves verticillate, spreading, but 
imbricate at the broad sessile base, oblong, acute, sinuato-spi- 
— nulose, very woolly. Calye also with long lax wool, almost an 
inch long, two-lipped ; wpper lip tridentate, ower shorter, bifid ; 
all the teeth spinulose. Corol/a with the tube as long as the 
calyx, white; /imd pale bluish-purple, as long as the tube, bi- 
_ partite, gaping. Upper lip oblong, bifid and laciniated, plane 
or with the margins recurved ; lower trifid: lateral lobes small, 
lanceolate, slightly falcate, entire, intermediate one large, flabelli- 
form, deeply fimbriated ; halfway down within the tube of the co- 
rolla is a hairy ring. Stamens with sterile branch short, deflexed 
within the tube; fertile branch erect, exserted, as long as the 
lower lip. Fertile anther linear, curved, one-celled, hairy. Ovary 
four-lobed, on a gland or receptacle as large as itself. Style 
longer than the corolla. Stigma bifid. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Fertile anthers. 4. Pistil:— 
all more or less magnified. 
