Refugmm Botanicim.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 252. 
Natural Order Composite. 
Sub -order Asteeoide^. 
Genus Bellium, Linn. 
B. ROTUNDiFOLiuM (D. C. Pvoclr. V. 303). Perennis, acaulis, semi- 
pedalis vel pedalis, foliis rosulatis ovatis repando-dentatis obtusis 
vel subacutis basi subcordatis vel late cuneatis utrinque minute 
griseo-setosis in petiolum longum anguste desinentibus, scapo foliis 
3 — d-plo longioribus, capitulo magno solitario, involucro turbinato 
squamis circiter 20 sequalibus ligulatis obtusis, ligulis circiter 100 
squamis subduplo excedentibus, achsenio compresso piloso setarum 
annulo coronato, — Doronicum rotunclifolium, Desf. Atlant. ii. p. 279, 
t- 235, fig. 1. B. giganteum, Cass. Diet. 37, p. 456. Bellis rotun- 
cUfoUa, Bolss. et Rent. Pug. p. 29. 
A native of Algeria and Morocco, recently introduced into 
English collections by Mr. Geo. Maw. 
Perennial, acaulescent, half a foot to a foot high, with just the 
general habit of our common English daisy. Leaves about half a 
dozen in a radical rosette, ovate, an inch and a half to three 
inches long, twelve to eighteen lines broad, blunt or subacute, 
repando-dentate, especially in the lower half, the base varying 
from broadly cuneate to narrowly cordate, the haft narrowly 
decurrent along the petiole, texture thick-herbaceous, both sides 
green, in exposure tinged with purple, rough with minute ad- 
pressed gray setse. Petiole one to three inches long. Heads 
always solitary, measuring fifteen to sixteen lines across when 
the ligules are expanded. Lirolucre turbinate, composed of about 
twenty equal ligulate blunt scales four lines long, more or less 
pubescent on the back in the lower half. Tubular florets her- 
maphrodite, shorter than the involucre. Ligules about a hundred, 
half an inch long, white tinged with red. Achcenium minute, 
compressed, densely pubescent, crowned with a ring of hairs just 
like those that cover the faces. 
Tab. 252. — 1, flower of the ray ; 2, its stigmas ; 3, flower of the disk ; 
4, its stigmas; 5, a stamen; 6, a portion of pappus: all magnified. — 
J. G. B. 
A very fine daisy-like plant, flowering very freely and well 
worth cultivation. For an opportunity of figuring this plant 
I am indebted to the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew. — W. W. S. 
