ing out many lateral shoots from its woody stem. Both 
flowers and leaves have an agreeable, musky smell. I rais- 
ed it from seeds sent me many years ago from the South of 
Spain, by our late esteemed friend, Dr. Suter, when on 
his way to England from Madeira, before he went to India.” 
Its lively yellow flowers nestled among the bright green 
foliage were in perfection to the very latter end of Novem- 
ber, when our figure was taken. 
I refer this plant to Kenrropuytium, Neck., on account of 
its great affinity with the K. lanatum of De Canpo.te, Car- 
tHAMmus lanatus, L. (Saf-flower), which is, however, an an- 
nual plant, and densely woolly. From the true CarrnHamus 
(tinctorius, L.) it differs im the presence of a pappus, and 
of a tuft of hairs on the filaments; from Onoproma, Garrt., 
Carduncellus, Hauu., with which Spreneex has united it, 
chiefly in the yellow (not blue or purple) flowers. 
Descr. Perennial; lower part of the stem woody, a little 
downy above, striated. Cauline leaves eight or ten inches _ 
- long, lanceolate or linear-oblong and acuminated, amplex- | 
icaul at the base, reticulated with veins, and having a broad 
pale costa, upper ones, or those of the branches shorter, 
much more rigid, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with longitu- 
dinal nerves connected by transverse veins: all of them 
sinuated and spinous. Flowers large, handsome, terminal, 
solitary. Florets yellow. Filaments with a beautiful yel- 
low tuft of hairs. Style very long: segments of the stigma 
combined: Pappus placed within an elevated rim of the 
germen, composed of flat, paleaceous bristles fringed at the 
margin, the outer ones being the shortest. Palee of the 
receptacle setose, white. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Portion of the three Anthers and Filaments. 3. 
Palee of the Receptacle. 4. Portion of a Bristle of the Pappus :—mag- 
nified. 
