The genus Cutcus appearing to Lamancx to be founded 
upon too flight charafters, he has united it to Carpuus, in 
which he has been followed by Persoon in his Synopfis, 
Woop in the New Cyclopedia; and by Vittars. But in fo 
large a genus as CArpuus, there Is a great convenience in 
the feparation, even though not founded upon the foundeft j 
principles. We therefore retain the Linnean name of Cyicus, i 
- without meaning however to'uphold WittpeNow in his ac- 
cumulation of heterogeneous fpecies under this name. 
Cultivation, as is ufual in fuch cafes, makes fome change in 
the habit; inftead of the flowers being crowded togeiher at 
the extremity of a fimple ftem, they ftand nearly fingle on fhort 
branches, ‘but are each furrounded with beautiful feathery 
yellowifh-white braéies. Hatrer defcribes not only the 
florets but the anthers as yellow-white [ flo/culi cum vagina 
echroleuci |;,in our garden fpecimen the latter were blueifh- 
purple, the former as defcribed by Hatuer. 
Though a native of the herbaceous regions of the Alps of 
fouthern Europe, the plant flourifhes extremely in Kew 
Garden, from whence we were favoured, by Mr. Arron, with 
the fpecimen from which our drawing was made, in July laft. 
Dr. Smite gathered it on littlke Mount Cenis, in an expedi- 
tion recorded in the third volume of his Tour on the Con- 
tinent, on the agth of Auguft. “ As I look on the fpecimen,” 
(be fays in his = ee fubjeét) “all 
recurs to my memory.” Everyone muft have occafionally 
witneffed a fimilar feeling The author has elegantly expa- 
tiated on the fame idea in the fecond volume of his Tour, 
where he remarks that “a plant gathered in a celebrated or 
delightful pot, is like the hair of a friend, more dear to 
memory than even a portrait ; becaufe. it Cnaitas the — 
tion, without pees: to fill it 
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