the colony, and only seen for the first time, a few months 

 ago, flowering in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq. of 

 Sunning Hill. Anxiety to secure the plant, before it could 

 be lost again, caused the accompanying drawing to be 

 executed rather too soon in the season, before the flower- 

 heads had reached their full size. Later in the summer they 

 became much larger, but lost in some measure their delicate 

 rose-coloured tips. 



The species is an annual, and is propagated by seeds. 



