been generally found to dwindle away with us in a very 
short time, and is far from common in our gardens; in some 
of which it is sheltered in a garden-pit during winter, while 
in others it is treated as a hardy plant, and grown in the 
open border. We are obliged to Mr. Lambert for the speci- 
men which has afforded the present drawing; it came from 
his seat at Boyton in November last. 
Root perennial, bulbous: séem simple, round, fluted, 
upright, furred, leafy. Leaves sessile, numerous, scattered 
loosely in all directions, decreasing as they ascend upon the 
stem, spreading, linear and slightly faleated, about a line 
and a half broad, rather tapered at each end, midrib simple 
sunk below the surface on both sides, as are the minute 
glands with which they are thickly pitted, very shortly 
pointed, almost smooth or with a few straggling hairs, 
longer ones three inches in length or more. Spike cylin- 
drically elongated, upright, scattered, simple, numerous, 
more or less close, somewhat leafy, flowering from the top 
downwards. Flowers an inch long, subsessile with an ex- 
tremely short thick furred peduncle, solitary, each from the 
axil of a smallish linearly tapered mucronated externally 
furred leaf, which is longer than the calyx. Calyx oblong, 
narrow, squarrose, furred, green and rose-coloured ; leaflets 
linearly lanceolate, long pointed and somewhat awned, nar- 
row, outer ones many, shorter than the others, entirely 
green, inner ones (62) with a green oblong externally furred 
unguis equal to the florets, and a rose-coloured membranous 
subscariose lanceolate long pointed spreading blade, even 
with the stigmas and smooth on both sides. Jlorets 5, tu- 
bulous, funnelform, glitteringly and whitely frosted on the 
outside, transversely wrinkled, elastic; faux rather inflated; 
segments of the limb spreading, oblongly lanceolate, some- 
times faintly tinged with pink, smooth on the inside, con- 
cave, about three times as short as the faux and tube taken 
together. Anthers blackish purple; pollen white. Style 
not elastic; stigmas 2, long, rose-coloured, clavately linear 
patent, externally convex, channelled within and covered 
with a dewy moisture, not furnished with the brush-like 
pubescence at the back, by which in most of this order the 
pollen is carried out of the anther of the florets of the disk, 
Germen oblong, narrow, villous; pappus white, numerous, 
feathered, 
