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FLORA OF THE 



to cultivation, early found its way to the gardens of 

 the Assyrian monarchs. 



It is unmistakably and very truthfully delineated on 

 Nos. 76 and "jj of the basement, British Museum, 



Fig. 13.— Lily from No. jj , basement, Brit. Mus. 



Fig. 13 shows that the sculptors of those days were 

 well acquainted with this fine thing. 



A COMPOSITE PLANT {Hiemcium Pannosum). 



In the British Museum basement (Nos. ']6 and j'j) 

 there occur delineated two figures of one plant which 

 had puzzled me for a long time. They both have 

 large acute sessile radical leaves. In one case, how- 

 ever, it is shown with three blossoms unexpanded close 

 to the leaves, and in the other with three composite 

 expanded flowers, each on separate long stalks. 



With the help of the officials of the Natural History 



