differs by upright taller stems, longer narrower leaves, 
even at the edge and not cartilaginously serrated as in that, 
by a straight prickle at the end of these instead of a slantingly 
hooked one, nor are the general and partial involucres finely 
serrated at the edge as there; the segments of the calyx 
also are here more conspicuously uneven at the edge. 
The plant has been very recently raised by Mr. Knight, 
nurseryman in the King’s Road, Chelsea, from seed received 
from Moscow. : 
Mr. Marschall has denominated “ calycine segments” the 
parts that have been termed “ petals” by others, and vice 
versa. 
A stiff glaucous perennial plant. Stems aggregated, 
simple, from a foot to a foot and half high, round, about as 
thick as a common pen, greenish white, here and there 
stained with purple. Leaves clongatedly oblong, lanceo- 
late, tapered and pointed by a small prickle, thickish, lea- 
thery, veinless, glaucous, even at the edge, longer ones 
about 2 inches long, broadest half an inch wide, spreading, 
scattered all round, numerous, loosishly set, diminishing in 
sizeas they ascend the stem. Umbel generally 8-rayed, about 
an inch and an half long, terminal, greenish yellow, here 
and there shaded with tawny brown. General involucre of 
many leaflets, widespread, shorter than the umbel, leaflets 
cuneately oblong, with a small soft prickle. Partial umbels 
3-rayed, middle flower stamenbearing shortly pedicled, side- - 
ones with both stamens and pistil, subsessile. Partial invo- 
lucres two-leafletted, rhomboidally cordate, tender. lowers 
about the size of those of the common currant, of an un- 
pleasant smell. Calyx turbinate, pale, 5-cleft, segments 
uprightly convergent, short, roundish, crenulate and downy 
at the edge, about equal to the petals in depth. Petals 4, 
glandularly thickened, rotately expanded on the outside of 
the segments of the calyx, transversely oblong or very 
faintly reniform, deep yellow, entire, wet and clammy at 
the inner surface, two-horned, horns clavate, issuing from 
under the corners of their front edge, sometimes doubly, 
sometimes triply headed. Stamens 12 in the primary 
flowers: anthers twin, with globular cells: pollen yellow. 
Germen somewhat oblong, smooth, roundedly 3-cornered: 
styles 3, fascicled, green, rather longer than the germen, 
with short two-cleft stigmas, the lobes of which are of a 
deep green colour, flattish and roundish. 
