stalk and a green central nerve, (f. 1.) the inner and upper 
ones, ovate acuminate; (f. 2.) having a long broad stalk 
with a central green nerve. Florets of the centre purple, 
(as well as those of the circumference,) tubular, five-toothed. 
Anthers purple. Germen oblong, obscurely striated, pu- 
bescent. Pappus shorter than the corolla, distinctly sca- 
brous. Style exserted beyond the stamens. Stigma bifid, 
the segments linear. Florets of the circumference, as long 
as the disk is broad. Corolla ligulate, obscurely bi-.triden- 
tate ; its tube long, slender: Germen, pappusand style, as 
in the central florets.;: the latter a:little protruded beyond 
the tube. . 
We received seeds: of this-very pretty plant from Mr. 
Fraser of New South Wales, at the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 
den, where, treated as a hardy annual, it flowered in the open 
border during the summer and autumnal months. _ Dr. 
Granam, with his accustomed promptitude and kindness, 
communicated at the same season specimens which bloomed 
at Edinburgh, and which he described in Jameson’s Jour- 
nal, under the name we have here adopted) ~ 
It certainly comes very near to the ye of Popo.eris. 
ata of Lanitiarpiere: but there the flowers are yellow 
(according to Cassrn1) the leaves are narrower and more ta- 
pering at the base, and the scales ‘of the involucre are de- 
scribed, fhoush net represented, as being wrinkled. 
SprencrEr has united the Scaxza jaceoides of Dr. Stms 
(Bot. Mag. t. 956.) with the Popo.eris rugata, notwith- 
standing that. the florets of the ray are both figured and — 
described as being tubular (as in Centaurea) which is by 10 | 
means the case with Lapimtarpiere’s plant; whilst Mr. 
Brown has made of the same plant his Poponeris acuminata 
(Hortus Kewensis, vol. 5:), but without noticing the partl- 
cular nature of the florets of the cireumference. ~~ 
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Fig. 1. Outer Seale of the Involuere, 2. Inner ditte. 3. Floret of the 
Disk. 4, Floret: of the Circumference... 5. .Haindrom the: Pappuss—~Mag* 
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