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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



green, and nearly smooth near the point, which is somewhat 

 spiny, filiform, with two or three long segments of the same 

 form. Flowers deep blue in cottony heads, closely surrounded 

 by long pungent linear bracts. Anthers white, projecting be- 

 yond the corolla. 



This quite agrees with the specimens formerly gathered in 

 California by Douglas. It is rather pretty, on account of the 

 contrast between its gray woolly leaves and brilliant blue flowers, 

 and will make a variety among hardy annuals. 



Like most plants of the kind from California, it flowers very 

 early. The plant now figured, sown in May, flowered in Au- 

 gust. By successive sowings it is, therefore, possible to have a 

 continuation of it during all the season of growth. 



Aug. 5, 1847. 



