same with the one he has referred to in Mr. aml 
Herbarium. 
We have seen no figure of this gay flower in any work, 
except the diminished uncoloured engraving in the dutch 
publication we have cited above. Yet the species has con- 
tinued very generally to enliven our collections, at the close 
of each succeeding year, from that of 1710 to the present. 
A perfectly hardy perennial, thriving in almost any 
_ Situation. Stem from seven to eight feet high, upright, 
brownish red, hispid, flexuose above and divided into a 
loose broad fastigiant panicle of simple flowerbearing 
branches. Leaves cordately stemclasping, linear-lanceolate, 
"narrow, three inches or more in length, gradually diminish- 
ing, subhispidly villous; lobes at the base deep. Flowers 
largish, disposed at the end of the branches in few-flowered 
close corymbs; peduncles very short. Calyx campanulate; 
leaflets in few ranks, green or party-coloured, lanceolately 
linear, pointed, villous, equal to, or higher than the disk. 
of the flower. Ray varying from deep blue to purplish red. 
Florets of the disk yellowish, with a short brown-purple 
limb; segments ovate, pointed. Anthers enclosed. Stigmas 
2, yellow, linear, divergent. Germen silky, oblong: hair 
of the pappus or crown inclined to tawny. 
The drawing was made in November last, at Messrs. 
Whitley, Brames, and Milne’s, in the King’s Road, Par- 
son’s Green, Fulham. 
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a A floret of the disk. b A floret of the ray. c The calyx, with the. 
enclosed receptacle deprived of all the florets, and dissected vertically. 
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