bluntish, and terminated by a very short blunt point, 
clothed with spreading villous hairs. Petals 5, roundly 
obcordate, flat, with undulate margins, slightly emarginate, 
of a bluish lilac, lighter toward the base, where they are 
streaked with light blue. Stamens 1 0, all fertile, united 
at the base, Jilaments dilated downwards, fringed with 
long hairs near the base, and smooth upwards. Style 
green, slightly pubescent. Stigmas 5, spreading. Car- 
pella 5, very hairy, transversely ribbed. 
This fine herbaceous perennial has been considered by 
some authors as a variety of G. phceum, from which we 
consider it as distinct as any species in a natural genus 
had need be ; this, as far as we have observed, always 
produces long simple stems, whereas, those of G. phceum 
are always forked ; this is also a much stronger growing 
plant, its leaves are larger, more divided, and more pubes- 
cent ; besides other distinctions, whether G. fuscum be as 
distinct or not, we have not yet ascertained, but M'hen 
growing together they appear to us very different; the 
present plant is a very fine hardy perennial, thriving well 
in the open ground, in the common garden soil, where it 
continues to bloom for a considerable time, and ripens 
plenty of seed, by which it may be readily increased ; it 
may also be propagated by dividing at the root. Our 
drawing was taken from a plant communicated by Mr. 
Anderson, from the Garden belonging to the Apothecaries' 
Company at Chelsea, in May last. 
