Descr. Perennial. Leaves all radical, a span or more 
long, half an inch broad, subulato-ensiform, pale green, 
somewhat shining, semipellucid, striated, and compactly 
cellular, the inner ones nearly erect, the outer ones patent 
or recurved. Scape one to three feet high, terete, with 
twelve (often spiral) strie and as many obtuse angles 
between them; sheathed below with a bractea, which is 
nearly as long as the leaves, tubular, and spirally striated. 
Head of Flowers nearly three-fourths of an inch in diameter, 
forming a depressed globe, nearly hemispherical, woolly. 
Outer scales the largest, empty, ovate, acute, pale yellowish- 
brown, glossy: inner ones bearing flowers, linear, very 
hairy. Male Flowers in the disk, each a perianth of four 
leaves, the two outer and lower ones subconduplicate, — 
carinate, hairy at the back and tip; the two inner ones 
united for the greater part of their length into an infundi-— 
buliform, glabrous tube, the two lips hairy, bearing each a 
black, sessile gland, and at the base two stamens on short 
filaments and two others from the sinus of the lips, one on 
each side. There are besides two glands at the base of 
these lips. Filament short, white. Anther 2-lobed, dark 
green. Female Flowers occupying the circumference. 
Segments of the Perianth free to their base, or nearly so; 
outer ones conduplicate ; inner ones linear, spathulate, 
hairy at the extremities. Pistil on short stipes. Germen 
two-lobed. Style bifid. Stigmas subulate. a 
A native of North America, from Pennsylvania to Caro- 
lina and Virginia ; and if Humeoxpt’s E. decemangulare be 
the same, as is supposed by that author, of the tropical 
rts of South America likewise. Our Glasgow Garden Is 
indebted to the Messrs. Loppiexs for the species. It is, 
with us, cultivated in the stoves, in pots of peat-earth set 
ito pans of water. Its flowers are produced in July and 
ae eeteeiny upon scapes two and a half and three feet long. 
_ Judging from the description, Micuaux’s E. gnaphalodes 
is very nearly allied to this; nor can I distinguish what } 
have received from the Southern States, under that name, 
from the present. Like our British Errocauton, (E. sept 
-gulare) it is liable to vary much in size. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Scape. 2. Outer Secale of the Capitulum. 3. Inner 
Scale. 4. Male Flower. 5. Seale of a Female Flower. 6. Female Flowe™ 
7. Pistil :—magnified. — 
