Ritro. The proper calyx consists of a great number of 
imbricated leaflets : the terior ones longest, subulate, rigid, 
pungent, blue towards the point: exterior lanceolate, ciliate 
and extremely hairy at the base. Corolla tubular, divided 
far down into five very narrow segments, Seed oblong, with 
a ciliated five-angled crown. Leaves pinnatifid, cottony on 
the under surface, dark green on the upper and rough with 
short, rigid, adpressed bristles. 
An annual plant ; propagated by seeds only. Native of 
Spain. Cultivated by Puitie Mitxer in 1729, but we be- 
lieve has not been seen in this country for many years till 
raised this summer by Aytmer Bourke Lampert, Esq. in 
his garden at Boyton, from Spanish seeds ; to this gentleman 
we are indebted for the specimen from which our drawing’ 
was taken in September last ; as well as for the information 
that the substance called Spanish tinder, which resembles in 
many respects the Moxa of the Chinese, is manufactured 
from the Ecuinops strigosa. Of this tinder, three kinds are 
prepared, one from the pubescence of the flowering heads, a 
second from that of the leaves, anda third from the stalks ; as 
Mr. Lamperr was informed by his friend Don Josr Pavon, 
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