ECHINACEA INTERMEDIA. 
(Intermediate Hedgehog-flower.) 
Class. 
SYNGENESIA. 
Order. 
POLYGAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASTER ACEiE. 
(Composites, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Gapitulum many-flowered, 
heterogamous. Florets of the ray neutral, each with 
a long strap-shaped limb, arranged in a single row. 
Florets of the disk hermaphrodite, regularly quinquefid. 
Tube short. Orifice naked. Limb toothed, erect. 
Involucrum arranged in three series; scales lanceolate, 
ciliated. Receptacle ovate. Palea rigid, projecting 
beyond the florets of the disk, very numerous. Stamens 
scarcely longer than the corolla. Style longer than the 
stamens, and separating at the extremity into two 
semi-lanceolate branches. Achcenia four-sided, some- 
what pyramidal, downy. 
Specific Character— Plant a herbaceous perennial, 
growing two feet high, with a robust habit. Stem 
clothed with short bristle-like hairs, and streaked with 
dull brown. Leaves scabrous, dark-green, nearly heart- 
shaped at the base, verging, towards the upper part, to 
ovate-acuminate ; primary opposite, but assuming an 
apposite position on the lateral floral branches. 
Flowers showy, four or five inches diameter, bright 
reddish-purple or lilac. Involucrum green, tinged with 
brown. Florets of the ray large and spreading. Disk 
elevated. 
Authorities and Synonvmes.— Echinacea Moznch. 
Meth., 591, De Candolle, Prod. 5, 554 ; Rudbeckia Linn. ; 
E. intermedia Lindl. 
The blooming season of this fine new herbaceous plant is from the end of July 
until the beginning of November, and it is one of our finest autumnal border 
plants. 
We made our drawing from a specimen sent us by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, 
of the Fishergate Nurseries, York, in August last, with whom it continued long in 
bloom, and was deservedly admired. 
Like all the other species of Echinacea, it is, we presume, a native of the cooler 
parts of Mexico, and of recent introduction, but when, and by whom, brought to 
this country is uncertain. It is pretty liberally distributed both amongst nurserymen 
and in private collections. Being perfectly hardy, a free bloomer, very handsome, and 
of the easiest management, it will no doubt be as universally cultivated as its merits 
deserve. 
In habit it approaches the nearest to Echinacea speciosa (Rudbeckia speciosa 
