off and placed in the house in water, when they will expand 
completely, and last for a long time in beauty. We hayv« 
taken the above technical description chiefly from a paper in 
Hoffmann’s “ Phytographische Blatter,” published at Gét~ - 
tingen. The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. 
Whitley and Co. Fulham. 
Stem herbaceous, upright, straight, two feet or more in 
height, round, hispid, brownish red, paniculately branched; 
branches numerous, fluted, hispid, axillary, spreading, 
leafy, simple or divided, stiff, terminated by one flower 
each. Leaves scattered, numerous, sessile, linearly lanceo- 
late and generally somewhat spatulate, reflex, sharp- 
pointed, hispid, whitish underneath. Flowers of a deep 
purplish blue, about an inch and an half across. Calyx 
roundish, squarrose, Jeaflets linearly lanceolate, narrow, 
glandularly ciliate, red at the tips, pointed, with a nerve 
along the middle, inner ones thinner and narrower: florets _ 
of the ray pistil-bearing, obversely lanceolate, slightly con- 
cave, 2-3-toothed plaitedly streaked, tube short, slightly 
pubescent, greenish: florets of the disk with stamens and 
pistil, greenish yellow, clavate, limb uprightly spreading, 
with short pointed segments slightly pubescent on the out- 
side, tube slender, short, nearly the width of the faux. _dn- 
thers deep yellow with brownish purple streaks and pointed 
tops of the same colour. Stigmas in the ray greenish yellow, 
linear, grooved, upright, forked, slanting, very slightly 
pubescent; in the disk yellow, converging, spatulate, pu- 
bescent. Germens oblong, with thick hair: pappus shorter 
than the florets of the disk, when magnified somewhat 
feathery, Receptacle naked, flattish, pitted, the pits bor- 
dered by a sharply toothed membrane. 
