EREMOSTACHYS (from eremos, deserted, and stachys, a spike; alluding to the flowers growing in sparse verticillate spikes). ORD. Labiatae. Very pretty hardy perennials. All are natives of Western and Central Asia. Upper lip of corolla elongated, galeate, somewhat compressed, attenuated at the base. Leaves pinnate or pinnatifid. They are of very easy culture in a light rich soil, and may be increased by division or seed. There are about twenty-seven species in this genus, but that given below is perhaps the only one in cultivation. EREMOSTACHYS laciniata (cut-leaved). fl. yellow; whorls ten to twenty-flowered, upper ones approximate. July. l. pinnatisect; segments oblong-lanceolate or linear, deeply pinnatifid; radical ones 6in. long. Stems nearly simple. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Levant, 1731. (B. R. 1845, 52.)