drawings of objects of natural history preserved in the 
Museum at Paris, and continued down to this day. 
Our drawing was made in March last at Mr. Brookes’s 
Nursery, Ball’s Pond, from a plant about 5 feet in height. 
Stem simple, covered all over with purple prickle-like 
warts. Leaves seated on a long prickly round stalk, sheath- 
ing at its base, cordate, palmate, 7-lobed; the lobes lan- 
ceolate, serrate, nearly equal, covered beneath with a fine 
stellate ferruginous pubescence. Umbel compound; the 
partial umbels with from 16 to 18 flowers each; without 
an involucrum; their peduncles smooth, dotted; pedicels 
covered with a thin deciduous ferruginous pubescence. 
Calyx nearly entire, plaited. Petals quickly deciduous. 
Stamens 5-9, inserted outside abroad discus. Style 1, with 
many divisions at end. 
; J.L, 
