Dipsacee—Morina. 229 
1. M. longifolia.—A perennial about 2 feet high with 
large lobed spinescent radical leaves and showy rosy carmine 
and white flowers, produced in Juneand July. A native of the 
Himalayan mountains. 
Cephalaria Tartérica is an allied tall perennial bearing large 
heads of pale yellow flowers, in which the involucels exceed the 
florets. 
Orver LXI.—COMPOSITA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, whorled, or 
less frequently opposite, simple or compound, exstipulate. 
Flowers sessile on the expanded peduncle or receptacle, and 
surrounded by a number of more or less leafy bracts termed 
the involucre. Receptacle with or without bracteoles or 
bristles between the florets. Calyx superior; limb none, or 
feathery, or scaly, and termed the pappus. Corolla variable 
in the different tribes. Stamens 4 or 5; anthers usually 
connate. Style filiform, with a bifid stigma. Fruit dry and 
indehiscent, containing one erect albuminous seed. A vast order 
comprising about 1,000 genera and 8,000 species, occurring in 
all parts of the world. The ornamental species are so numerous 
that we must confine ourselves to descriptions of a selection of 
the better known ones which are worthy of cultivation, and 
merely mention the names of those of secondary importance. 
They may be conveniently divided into three large groups, and 
these again into several tribes. 
Sus-Orver l.—Tubulifilores. 
Florets all tubular and hermaphrodite, or the outer or ray- 
florets ligulate, and female or neuter. 
Trips 1.—VERNONIEA. 
Leaves usually alternate. Florets all tubular and herma- 
phrodite. Branches of the style covered with bristles. Not 
represented in Britain. 
1, STOKESIA. 
A monotypic genus from North America. Flower-heads 
large, terminal, solitary. Outer bracts of the involucre spiny- 
