* ECHrNOPS RUTHEN'ICUS. 
RUSSIAN GLOBE THISTLE. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. . SEGREGATA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Russia. 
2 feet. 
July Sc Sep 
Perennial. 
in 1816. 
No. 868. 
The name, Echinops, is deduced from the Greek 
ECHiNOS, a hedgehog ; and opsis, resemblance. 
The likeness of the round prickly heads of the 
plant, to the animal, is evident enough to the sense, 
either of seeing or feeling, particularly the latter, 
when some of the species are meddled with. 
The Echinops Ruthenicus, when well established 
amongst other plants, produces a rather pleasing 
variety, from its strong contrast with the usual 
subjects of the garden. Its foliage, too — green 
above, and white beneath, although somewhat 
thistly, produces a pleasing effect. It is of low 
stature, and should occupy a place near the front 
of the border; being unlike some of the species 
from the more southerly districts of Europe, 
which grow six feet high. It may be planted in 
any common earth, and its roots will admit of 
division, but not frequently. 
The Echinops is a compound flower; that is, it 
has numerous little florets, on a common receptacle, 
and enclosed within a calyx which belongs equally 
to the whole. Under No. 792, the Echinacea 
dubia, we transcribed, for the instruction of our 
