ad instar percursa. Flose. glabri, equales, numerost, infra limbym deco- 
lores, subdiaphani, micantes, clavato-infundibuliformes, peripheriam versis 
recurvati, limbo patente bis breviore fauce cum tubo simul sumptd, laciniis 
oblongis attenuatis obtusiusculis. Anthera castanco-fusce, valvulis 5 minimis 
obtusulis concoloribus apiculate, basi obsolete emarginate: fil. inelastica 
Stigmata palparum instar exserta, longissima, lilacina, filiformia, glabra, 
intds canaliculata, deorstm subattenuata et de infra medium usque ad at 
sulco latiore planiusculo candicante puniceo-marginato exarata; stylus bre- 
vior, albus. Germ. cuneato-cylindricum, sesquibrevius pappo, hirsutum 
sulcato-striatum, pallens, stipite brevi capillaceo insidens: pappus plumosus, 
serie simplict plurimus, coloratus, fauct flosculi aqualis. eat planius- 
culum, glabrum, punctatum. 
A reference to the original sample in the Claytonian 
Herbarium, proves our plant to belong to the scariosa of 
Gronovius and Linnzeus; else the epithet “ squarrosus” 
applied by the latter to the calyx would have left some 
uncertainty. We still however suspect that “ squarrosus” 
has been used inadvertently for ‘ scariosus;” though in 
strictness neither term is correct, for it is the bottom only 
of the calyx that is slightly squarrose, and the top only 
that is partially scariose; but it is an epithet applied by 
Pluknet to that plant of his work, which has been deemed 
by Linnzeus specifically identical with scariosa, and which 
must have suggested to him the name. 
We omit in our synonymy the L. scariosa of Curtis's 
Magazine (No. 1709) believing it (as to the figure at least) 
to be the L. spheroidea of Michaux, in which the edges of 
the leaves are smooth, the spike much longer, more nume- 
rously flowered and shorter peduncled, the calyx nearly 
globular, tenderer, and of a lighter green, with far broader 
colourlessly and scariosely bordered connivent interior leaf- 
lets. The description, however, which is said to have been 
taken from a different plant from that from which the 
drawing was made, may probably relate to the present 
species. 
The synonym adduced to scariosa by Linnaeus from 
Pluknet, we believe to belong to spharotdea. The two seem 
to have been also confused in the Banksian and Lamber- 
tian Herbariums. 
Drawn last October from a plant in the collection of 
Mr. Burchell, at Fulham. We also saw several others in 
the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, at Chelsea. 
