_ the point with a membranaceous border, Recepiacle naked; but 
in the circumference appears as if chaffy from abortive florets, 
Tube of corolla inflated in the middle : Jims 5-cleft, ere&, acute. 
Authers dark purple. Germen hairy, crowned with a toothed 
pappus: flyle oblique: fligmas clubfhaped, far exceeding the 
corolla in length. 
The {pecimen from which the above defcription was taken 
was fent us from his garden at Boyton, by our friend Ayitmsr 
Bourke Lamssar, Efg. The fpike of flowers was a foot 
and a half long, the upper ones bloffoming firft and gradually 
defcending, but nearly the whole were expanded before any 
began to fade. Upon the whole it is among the handfomett of 
the fyngenefious plants. It is particularly adapted to the flower 
pot, as it will live and continue to blow in water for weeks 
together. 
Our drawing was taken at Mr. Knrent’s Exotic Nurfer > In 
the King’s-Road, Little Chelfea, in O@ober 1813. 
Native of the mountain paftures in Virginia and Carolina. 
A hardy perennial. Propagated by parting its roots or by feed. 
