Flowers on several, terminal, leafy petioles, forming an im- 
perfect corymb, very large, three to four inches in diameter. 
Involucre hemispherical, compressed, of many imbricated 
dark-coloured scales, membranaceous and diaphanous at 
the margin. Florets of the ray very long, white, ligulate, 
tridentate at the extremity ; their germen oblong, abor- 
tive?, not crowned. Style with a yellow, bifid stigma. 
Florets of the disk small, yellow, tubular, the lower part 
cylindrical, covered with yellow glands, the limb broad, 
cup-shaped, five-toothed, the points of the teeth black, 
erect ; stamens with the anthers protruded. Germen ob- 
long, sulcated, crowned with a cup-shaped membranous 
pappus. Style longer than the stamens; stigma bifid. 
Receptacle convex, naked, dotted. 
The noble flowers of this plant, added to the lateness of 
the season when they are expanded (the month of October), 
render this a most desirable plant for the garden or the 
shrubbery. It is quite hardy; a native of Hungary, Spain, 
and Portugal, and the seeds of it were sent to the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, in 1825, by Mr. Fiscner, of Gottingen. 
We observed the same plant flowering in the Royal gar- 
dens of Kew, during the Autumn of the last year. 
Fig. 1. Lower leaf, natural size. 2. Floret from the Disk. 3. Floret 
from the Circumference.—Magnijied. 
