among specimens from the same country, gathered by 

 Salzmann, who found it on dry hills. 



We remark that the learned Botanist to whom we have 

 just alluded, considers the whole of the plant which bears 

 flowers as a form of inflorescence analogous to the cyme. 

 But, in opposition to that opinion, we would venture to 

 observe, that it is never the propertij of injiorescences to pro- 

 pagate pla?its by cuttings, the leaf-buds of that part of a 

 plant being either converted into flower- buds, or altogether 

 dormant. This plant, on the contrary, could scarcely be 

 increased if it were not by its flowering branches, for it 

 often produces nothing else. We therefore prefer to con- 

 sider the capitula only as the inflorescence. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society last summer. The plant had been received 

 from the Royal Gardens of Berlin. 



J. L. 



