from Buenos Ayres. He tells us it is easily cultivated, and 
as easily multiplied by parting the root; that it will do in’ 
the greenhouse, where however it should be considered as 
rather tender. When in flower, which it is about Novem- 
ber and December, it reminds us of the well-known Aster 
alpinus. The, rootstock rises into a fleshy and ultimately 
brown stem, resembling that of Colewort, but not. thicker 
than a common quill; sometimes nearly 8 inches in height, 
bearing a closish head of /eaves, from among which several 
Jlower-stems, each terminated by a single flower, and pro- 
ducing from below a few distant one-flowered leafy stalks 
placed in various directions. _ Leaves glaucous and viscous, 
with a disagreable smell like that perceptible in some of the 
Scropuutarta (Figworts): on the rootstock these are broad| 
etiolate, with an obovate blade at times more than an inch 
in breadth, loosely serrate at the sides, entire at the top; 
on the flower-stem and stalks several times narrower, entire 
and sessile. The florets of the lilac-coloured ray are rather 
broader than usual in this genus, where the almost capillary 
narrowness of these affords a chief mark of its separation 
from Asrer. ‘The drawing was made in the garden of the 
Lady we have mentioned above, at Bayswater, We saw 
several others, but not in flower, at Mr. Gray’s nursery 
Kensington Gore. If.any one whose eye this may meet, 
should be acquainted with any circumstance relating to this 
plant that has escaped us, and should think proper to com- 
municate the information to Mr, Ridgway, the publisher, or 
to Mr. Edwards, it will be inserted in ‘a subsequent Number. 
a The calyx of the flower enclosing the pulyinate (cushi d ; 
late (pitted) receptacle stripped of the florets, An ica 
from the disk on ws eon rane peas with a long hairlike Ppappus 
(down): magnified. cA female floret fiom the ray with its Sixt 
magnified, Yaa Feereh' slightly 
