erect, bristly and bearded, with an ovate base. Filaments
linear, compressed, white. Anthers orange, united into a
tube, terminated by an ovate-lanceolate, acute, dark purple
appendage, and furnished at the base with two minute teeth.
Style cylindrical, pale green, thickened upwards, glabrous;
the branches linear, compressed, recurved, channelled above,
dark crimson, appendages thrice longer than the branches,
awl-shaped, dark crimson, copiously bristly, recurved.
Achenia turbinate, clothed with copious silky hairs. Pappus
of 6 or 7 broadly oval, scariously membranous palese, overlapping
each other, terminated by a long rough awn, shorter
than the corolla. Rhachis convex, copiously bracteolate; the
bracteolse awl-shaped, white, with 3 or 4 sharp angles.
This very pretty species of Galardia was gathered in
Louisiana, by Mr. Thomas Drummond, and from seeds
transmitted by that enterprising collector, the plant has been
raised in various gardens. Our drawing was taken from a
plant which blossomed in the collection of our worthy friend
Mr. Neill at Canonmills, near Edinburgh, in August last.
We have likewise been favoured, by Mr. Miller, with specimens
from the Bristol Nursery, in which the colour of the
flowers was much richer, from the plant having been grown
in the open border. It should be planted in a mixture of
peat and loam, and it may be increased, either by cuttings
or by seeds, which it perfects freely in the open air. It is
probable that the plant will prove little more than biennial,
and therefore that by seeds will be the most satisfactory
mode of multiplying the species.
The triquetrous bracteolse, abruptly pointed pappus, and
the widened throat of the corolla, essentially distinguish the
species. The genus, which is entirely confined to North
America, is represented in the southern division of that continent
by Cephalophora, which is principally distinguished by
its entirely naked rhachis, a character which M. Lessing
has erroneously attributed to the present genus, that part
being thickly studded with palese, in Galardia bicolor, and
the other species.
The genus was dedicated to M. Gaillard de Charenton-
neau, an amateur of Botany. D. Don.