( 2909). 
ERYTHROLENA CONSPICUA. Conspicuous — 
ERYTHROLANA. ids 
Class and Order. 
£7 F, S 
Syneenesia ALQuALis. 
( Nat. Ord. — Composirz. 2 
ore Character. 
Involucrum conicum ; foliolis acuminatis, interioribus 
imbricatis, integerrimis, exterioribus reflexis spinoso-den- 
tatis. Receptaculum convexum pilosum. Flosculi omnes 
hermaphroditi, tubulosi : Limbo altero quinque partito : la- 
ciniis linearibus apice incrassatis: tubo 5-angulato basi 
angustato. Filamenta glanduloso-pilosa. Anthere basi 
bisetosee. Stigma bifidum ; laciniis approximatis. Pappus 
sessilis, plumosus. Sweet. 
| Specific Name and Synonym. 
Eryrarotana* conspicua. , 
ERyTHRoLmna conspicua. Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 134. 
Descr. Annual, or perhaps biennial. Stem eight to ten 
feet high, erect, much branched, angled and furrowed, 
pubescent, purplish-green. Leaves alternate, sessile, the 
Ower ones six to eight inches long, deeply pinnatifid or 
even bipinnatifid, dark shining green, pubescent with deci- 
duous own, much veined, the veins most conspicuous be- 
neath, the margin waved and sinuated, and armed with short 
brown or purplish spines: those of the upper part of 
the stem and branches lanceolate, very spinous. Flowers 
large and very handsome, terminating the young poet 
“un. 
* From Epupos red and adaawa a covering : so named in consequence of the 
beautiful red inyolucre of the flower. 
