anthers connected into a tube, naked at the base. Style
smooth, slender. Stigma deeply two-cleft, the segments
spreading, obtuse, pale lilac. Akenia or seed slightly foursided,
flat on two sides, punctate, and rough like a rasp,
terminated by a pappus of about 20 long, simple, white
hairs, th at are rough when viewed through a lens.
We observed this very pretty p lant for the first time in
Ju ly last, when it was j ust coming into bloom in the open
borders of the Flower Garden, in the rich collection of
Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury-hill; the seeds were
sown in Spring by Mr. D. Cameron, who informs us th a t
they were received from New South Wales the Autumn
before, and were marked Scalea species, which was the
name given to this genus by Dr. Sims. We have adopted
the specific name given by Dr. Graham, for the present
plant, bu t we think ramosum ox paniculatum would
have been much preferable, as th a t would have at once
distinguished it from the other two scarcely branched
species, which we believe are both quite as slender as
the present, or more so; the specimens from which our
drawing was made, were sent to us in September last,
when they were large branching plants, from two to
three feet high, with from 30 to 40 flowers on each,
which were of a light rose or bright lilac colour, and
made a very handsome appearance: those described
by Dr. Graham were grown in pots in the Greenhouse,
which accounts for their slender growth and paler flowers,
as we should judge by his description; for they are
of a very lively colour w hen grown in the open borders.
I t is quite as hardy and of as easy culture as the common
annual yellow Everlasting, the Helichrysum bracteatum,
which is from the same country; the seeds may
be sown in the open borders in April or the beginning
of May, or they may be raised in pots in frames or in
the Greenhouse, and from thence be planted in the
borders.
Podolepis is derived from ttoSoc, a foot, and Xettic, a
scale, from the footstalks to the scales of the involucrum.
1. Capitulum split through the middle to show the naked receptacle, and stipitate
scales o f the Involucrum. 2. One o f the longer stipitate scales, showing its
glandular pubescent stipe. 3. Two o f the shorter lower r 1- A.* u.Ava «,s_i iV V V d UolniCeisS.. y4;., WOlnICe oO If the
rays mth the seed at the base, showing its hairy pappus. 5. One o f the florets o f
the disk spread open. 6. The 5 Stamens. 7. Seed, tenninated by the Style and
Stigma. '