the sides to discharge the pollen, which is orange coloured.
Gernten densely clothed with silky close-
pressed white hairs. Style pubescent, thickening upwards,
about the length of the stamens. Stigma capitate,
slightly 5-lobed, pubescent.
The present plant is one of the most desirable of its
tribe, being quite hardy, and will thrive in almost any
soil or situation where it is not too moist; its flowers
are large, and produced in abundance, and it attains
to a height of 5 or 6 feet when grown in a sheltered
situation; fine plants of it are growing in the Garden
belonging to the Apothecaries’ Company, by the side
of the rock-work, and it is not an uncommon plant in
other collections, but is often confused with other species,
particularly with C. incanus, which is at present a
much rarer plant, and which we have been on the look
out for, for some time past, and have at last met with
both of Decandolle’s varieties at Mr. Lee’s of Hammersmith;
the narrow-leaved one figured by Clusius,
is, we have little doubt, specifically different from the
other. C. incanus of the Flora Grgeca is certainly different
from both, and is probably 0 . cymosus of De-
candolle, which is mentioned in his Prodromus as
being cultivated in Cels’s garden under the name of
C. incanus.
Many cultivators are deceived by the name of the
present species, thinking it cannot be C. albidus as its
flowers are red, but expect that to be one of the white
flowered species. It succeeds best in a light sandy
soil, and young cuttings planted under hand-glasses in
Autumn will soon strike root; it may also be raised
from seeds, which sometimes ripen plentifully. Drawn
at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, last Summer.