side: all clothed outside witli woolly rusty yellow hairs, and
lined with branched veins. Stamens numerous, unequal in
length: filaments smooth, yellow, attached to the base of
the anthers, which are two-lobed, and yellow: pollen white.
Carpella numerous, terminated by a long bearded tail.
Stigma a simple blunt point.
()ur drawing of this plant was made from one at the
Nursery of Mr. Colvill, the beginning of April last, who
received several plants of it in the Winter of 1805, from
the late Mr. Schleicher, of Bex, in Switzerland; they are
now thriving well, and several of them have flowered this
Spring. It is a very pretty Spring flowering plant, and its
singular feathery involucre adds greatly to its beauty. It
thrives well in the open border of the Flower Garden, but
requires rather a dry situation, as too much moisture is very
liable to rot its roots; the lighter and more sandy the soil is
the better it will thrive. It may also be grown in pots, but
those must not be very small, or there will not be room for
its roots; it may be increased by dividing at the root, or by
seeds, which ripen plentifully; those should he sown as
soon as ripe, and when up should be planted into pots, or
in a bed in the open ground, when care must be taken that
they are not devoured by worms or slugs in Winter.
1. One o f the leaflets o f the Iiivolucnun. 2. A |)Oition o f the Stamens, to
show their iliflercnt lengtlis. 3. The Carpella, showing their bearded surface.
4. One o f them removed, showing the slender Style and simple Stigma.