A handsome hardy perennial, found in the north-west 
of North America by Mr. David Douglas, and by him sent, 
in 1827, to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at 
Chiswick our drawing was made in July last. It flowers 
from June to October, and is propagated by seeds or 
division of the roots. 
It is, no doubt, the G. aristata of Pursh, which 
Mr. Nuttall considers a mere variety of G. bicolor. It 
appears to us, however, to be sufficiently distinct as a 
species, especially as it does not lose its wild features 
when cultivated. It is altogether a larger plant, more 
hardy, and the rays are whole-coloured; not to speak of 
other important differences. 
__,_A nearly evergreen perennial, with fibrous roots. Leaves 
of the root spatulate, tapering down into a long petiole, 
somewhat toothed, covered on both sides with numerous 
soft hairs, which are divided internally by several parti- 
tions ; of the stem sessile, oblong, very entire, acute, very 
slightly amplexicaul at the base. The radical leaves are 
occasionally pinnatifid. Stems erect, taper, striated, with 
close-pressed hairs. Heads solitary, on very long stalks, 
erect. Involucrum imbricated, many leaved; the scales 
foliaceous, squarrose, finally reflexed, ciliated, the in- 
nermost much the narrowest. Morets of the ray 15, 
large, cuneate, 3-toothed, yellowish orange, neuter; of the 
disk purple, tubular, campanulate, with a short, green, 
taper, solid base; the lobes 5, acuminate, bearded; the 
florets are persistent almost until the ripening of the fruit, 
and change to a greenish colour; those of the centre are 
male, those towards the circumference female or her- 
maphrodite. Ovarium turbinate, villous; pappus palea- 
ceous, aristate. Anthers with a little appendage at the 
apex, and acute lobes at the base. Sty/e filiform, smooth. 
Stigmata purple, subulate, bearded, furrowed along the 
middle, with a smooth stalk, Fruit turbinate, taper, trun- 
cate, villous at the base, smooth at the apex. Receptacle 
conical, covered with subulate palee. te 
