Dr. Fischer of tlie Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg,
and gathered, as we are informed, in Armenia, by one
of the travelling botanists connected with that establishment.
Onr drawing was taken from a plant which blossomed in
the Chelsea Botanic Garden in the autumn of last year,
and we have delayed publishing it in the hopes of finding a
description of it in the account given by Fischer and Meyer
of the new plants recently introduced to the Petersburg
Botanic Garden, but we have not been successful in identi-
fying it with any of the Composiia enumerated by the above-
mentioned botanists, nor does it appear to he included in the
list of genera furnished by De Candolle for the new edition
of Dr. Findley’s Introduction to the Natural System.
The plant has little beauty to recommend it, and were
it not that it constitutes a very interesting addition to a small
group of the Cickoracea, we should hardly have been
justified in inserting a figure of it in this work.
The generic name alludes to the woolly stems of the
plant, and is compounded of Xaaios, hairy, and t t o v s , a foot.
D . Don.
1. Outline of the entire plant. 2. Floret,