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clasping the stem at the base. Flowers numerous, terminating
the branches in a sort of panicle. Peduncles
stiff and erect, angular and channelled, hispidly pubescent,
1-flowered. Involucre of a double series of leaflets,
which are spreading, lanceolate, acute, the points
ascending. iiecejotocZeelongated, conical, chaffy: chaff
inclosing the seed, keeled, pubescent, with purple margins,
and a tufted villous head. Rays large, yellow,
broadly ligulate, 2 or 3 toothed at the point, strongly
nerved, barren, without the rudiments of a pistil, at
first spreading, afterwards elegantly dependent, the
points more or less revolute. Florets o f the disk numerous,
dark purple, tubular, 5-toothed, the veins prominent
and alternating with the teeth. Anthers 5, connected
into a tube, each with 2 short teeth at the base;
pollen orange-coloured. Style short, smooth. Stigma
2-cleft, the segments purple, fimbriate, and spreading.
Seeds flattish, with winged margins, terminated with
an obsolete entire pappus.
Our drawing of this plant was taken from some fine
flowering specimens obligingly given to us by Robert
Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, when we had the pleasure
of visiting his valuable and rare collection last Autumn;
the plant from which the specimens were taken, was
about 5 feet high, and entirely covered with its fragrant
flowers, which made a fine appearance; it is certainly
one amongst the finest of the strong-growing plants
that floAver in Autumn, and succeeds well in the common
garden soil, where the situation is not too moist,
and may be increased by dividing at the root, or by
seeds, which sometimes ripen. Pursh mentions it as
groAving in the western parts of Carolina and Georgia,
flowering from July to October.
1. The Involuc re, showing th e double row o f leaflets. 2. T h e elongated Recep
ta c le , showing the chaff w ith which it is clothed. 3. One o f th e Rays. 4. One
o f th e F lo rets o f th e disk. 5. T h e 5 Stamens spread open, to show the* co n n
e c ted an th e rs and distinct filaments. 6. One o f th e A n th e rs d e tach ed , to show
the 2 te e th a t th e base. 7. Seed te rm in a ted by th e Style , and the two-cleft
frin g ed Stigma. 8, One o f the scales o f th e chaff, showing its k ee led back and
Villons point. ’
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