feflexed from about the middle, and terminated with a
^ r of a greenish prn-ple colour, the margins
Cl lated with short spines: inner leaflets narrowly lanceolate,
closely imbricate, taper-pointed, entire, a little
eeled imar the point, of a glossy scarlet, lighter at the
base Receptacle convex, densely clothed Avith long
simple Avhite liaii-s. Florets tubular, all fertile, 5-
angnlar, very slender below the insertion of the stamens
: 5-nerved, limb 5-cleft, the segments nearly as
long as the tube, very narroAV, and clavate at the point.
Ntamens 5, inserted in the tube, the filaments long and
slender, distinct, thickly clothed with glandular hairs :
anthers connected into a tube, but distinct at the points,
each having 2 little bristles at the base. Style long,
exseited, smooth, purple towards the point. Stigma
purple, at first appearing entire, but at length bifid, the
segments erect, and close together. Veerfbluntly quadrangular,
terminated by a pappus of long feathered hairs.
ro r the opportunity of giving a figure of this new
and grand plant, we are indebted to the liberality of
Kobert Barclay, Esq. who sent us fine flowering specimens
m October last, that were blown in the open
border of his garden at Bury Hill, and, we believe, for
the hrst time in Europe. Mr. Barclay had received
the plant from the Nursery of Mr. Tate, in Sloane
street, who raised it from seeds brought from Mexico
by Mr. Bullock, under the name of the Scarlet Thistle!
It certainly is one of the finest and most conspicuous
plants that we ever beheld; at the time that we had
the pleasure of seeing it, before the blossoms were ex-
panded, Ave were quite struck with surprise at the
brilliancy of Its glossy scarlet Involucres, and we were
informed by Mr. D . Cameron, Aiffien we received the
specimens, that it had attained the height of 8 feet
Avith 18 branches of floAvers, besides its terminal head’
so that Its magnificence is scarcely to be described.
c loV l/y w i a i V ’* Ike c e n tre , to show the convex re c ep ta c le , densely
S /m e n ts whh . 7 f " ’®’ “ ® base, and Us 5 long
nt- fl T ^ ® Stamens and style in the c en tre. 3. The 5 Stamens divested
o f each t , fif 7 7 ® -® an th e rs with the two aristas a t th e hase
te rm in a ted h i T 7 fl “ " ‘1 “ ‘ickly clothed with glandular hairs. 4. Seed
f e S e d s id L ! “ '® to show Us
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