rarely, the heads are quite deftitute of this horn. Calyx green 

 five-cleft : lea/lets ovate, concave, mucrouate. Petals blue, 

 fmall, concave. Stamens and fiyles longer than the corolla, 

 bermens hifpid or fcaly. Receptacle conical. Chaff fpathular- 

 fhapcd, mucronate. 



Our plant, which was fent us by Mr. Donn, curator of the 

 Botanic Garden at Cambridge, having no radical leaves, we have 

 truited to Delaroche and Brotero for the defcription of them. 



The figure and excellent account given by Delaroche leaves 

 no room to doubt but that his plant is the fame with ours. And 

 as this author probably had an opportunity of examining Tour- 

 nefort's fpecimen, we mutt fuppofe that he could hardly be wrong 

 in quoting that fynonym alfo. The fame obfervation will apply 

 to Lamarck ; otherwise his defcription would not readily lead us 

 to conclude that his plant was the fame; for he makes no mention 

 of the remarkable roftrum terminating the capitula, but attributes 

 the name to the inequality of the involucre, two or three of the 

 leaflets of which he defcribes as being fo much longer than the 

 reft as to give the appearance of horns. The fynonym from 

 Mori son would feem ftill more dubious, as he defcribes the 

 heads of flowers to be feflile; and that of Ray is only a copy of 

 this laft. Delaroche has alfo quoted &. fuaveolens of Brouf- 

 fonet as a fynonym; but we obferved no fragrance in the flowers, 

 and the fmell of the bruifed plant was to us particularly ungrate- 

 ful. Thefe feeming contradictions are however in great meafure 

 reconciled by Brotero, who obferves that this plant varies 

 extremely according to the foil ; that in very dry places the 

 involucre becomes very fmall; the heads of flowers nearly or 

 quite feflile, and lemon-fcented ; the chaff fubtrifid and much 

 longer than the calyxes. This author therefore concludes that 

 E. corniculatum, galioides, and odoraium of Lamarck arc mere 

 varieties of the fame plant. 



This fpecies is not taken up in the new edition of Ilortus 

 Kewenfis, though introduced into the country according to 

 Mr. Donn in 1803. 



Native of wet and marfhy places in Portugal. Flowers in 

 June, July, and Auguft. Propagated by feeds. If thefe are 

 fown in the autumn, we fhould recommend the young plants to 

 be proteQed from the froft, during the winter, and planted out 

 in the open ground in the fpring. Brotero fays the root is 

 perennial ; Donn marks it as biennial. 



