flowers. It varies with silvery and yellow calycine scales, 
but the florets in all are yellow. Like the species described 
above, the flowers are sometimes crowded together into a close 
capitulum, and at other times expanded into a more or less 
spreading panicle. 7 
A hardy annual or biennial, Native of the Cape of Good- 
Hope. Piowers from June to September. Propagated by 
seeds, which, if sown in the spring, will flower the same 
year. An old inhabitant of our gardens, being cultivated in 
1692 by Mr. Georce Lonpon, of Brompton. — 
Communicated by Jonny Watker, Esq. Arno’s Grove. 
