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L A C H N i E A ERIOCEPHALA.
Woolly-headed Lachncea.
C L A S S vm. ORDER L
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal.
GENERIC
CALYX. Perianthiura monophyllura, perfiftens;
tubo longo, tenui; limbo quadripartito, inacquali;
lacinia fumma retrofraila, minima;
laciniis reliquis tribus ereñis; intermedia
majore.
C O R O L L A nulla.
STAMINA. Filamenta OÑO capillaria, ereña,
longitudine ferme floris. Anther® lìmplices.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen ovatum. Stylus filiformis,
germinis lateri infertus. Stigma capitatum,
hifpidum.
P E R I C A K P I UM nullum. Fruñus in fundo calycis.
SEMEN unicum, ovatum.
S P E C I F I C
Lachnaea capitulis folitariis, lanatis ; foliis quadrifariam
imbricatis.
CHARACTER.
EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, remaining; tube
long, flender; border of four divifions, unequal;
the upper fegment appearing broke
back, andfmall; the three other fegments
are upright ; the middle one the largeft.
BLOSSOM none.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, upright, almoft
the length of the flower. Tips
fimple.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud egg-lhaped. Shaft thread--
ihaped, fixed into the fide of the feed-bud.
Summit a hairy knob.
SEED-VESSEL none. The fruit is in the bottom
of the cup.
SEED one, egg-lhaped.
CHARACTER.
Lachnsea with Httle bunches of flowers growing
folitary and woolly; leaves are tiled on
the ftem, forming four regular angles.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The terminating Leaves of the branches, which inclofe the fmall heads of flowers.
2. A Flower, magnified.
3. A Flower cut open, natural fize, to fliew the infertion of the Chives.
4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, magnified.
THE figure of this curious new plant was taken from a fpecimen mofl: obligingly communicated by
the Hon. Wm. Hen. Irby, from his valuable and extenfive collefition at the Parfonage, Farnham Royal,
near Windfor, Bucks. The genus Lachnaea has hitherto, with us, remained in obfcurity; as the
L. Conglomerata has not as yet flowered, and the L. Eriocephala was not in our colleaions till within
thefe five years; about which time it was introduced by Meff. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfinith,
from the Cape of Good Hope. It differs but little in habit from Pafltrina Grandiflora, and until it
flowered this year, was confidered as a variety of that plant. May be propagated with cafe by cuttings,
and continues to flower from March till Auguft. A mixture of peat and loam is the foil it moil
approves; but it is very fufceptible of damps.
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