perfection for fully three months. Our drawing was made 
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. 
Stem erect, 2 feet high, round, branched, covered all 
over with glandular hairs. Leaves irregularly twice or 
thrice pinnatifid, smooth, with linear-lanceolate subfalcate 
segments, often cut on one side; the upper palmate, with 
linear segments. JVowers terminal, in a naked, long- 
stalked spike, which is branched at the base, densely 
capitate, and ovate. Calyx inferior, obconical, mem- 
branous, angular, with an erect, 5-cleft limb, ovate green 
segments, with a membranous margin, and a single vein 
in the middle, much shorter than the corolla. Corolla 
hypogynous, blue, funnel-shaped ; limb erect, 5-parted, 
with linear, acute segments. Stamens 5, inserted into the 
sinuses of the corolla, than which they are shorter. Anthers 
blue, oval, bursting lengthwise. Ovarium very small, 
surrounded by an obscure annular disk, roundish, 3-celled, 
with several peltate ovula in each cell. Style filiform, 
shorter than the stamens. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ob- 
long, covered by the persistent calyx, oval, papery, 
3-celled, 3-valved, with the valves carinate in the middle 
of the inside, the keels being opposite to the angles of a 
separate 3-winged axis: Seeds 4 in each cell, oblong, 
angular on account of their mutual compression, with an 
epidermis abounding in a tenacious mucilage, which readily 
dissolves in water. 
Jil ys 
