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who is busily engaged in arranging and describing the South
American and Mexican Compositæ, contained in the Lambertian
Herbarium ; a part of which has already appeared in the
last part of the Linnean Society’s Transactions.
It was first raised from Mexican seed, in Mr. Barclay’s
collection, at Bury Hill, in 1828, where it has continued to
flower in a warm border every Autumn since ; and its delicate,
slender, dark green leaves, clothed with long hairs, and
the abundance of its bright golden-coloured flowers, make
an elegant appearance, when there is very little else in flower :
it continues to bloom from September to the beginning of
December, if the weather continue mild ; this is a great advantage
in many of the Mexican plants that have been introduced,
within a few years, their coming into flower in Autumn,
after the greater part of the other flowers are over, so
that the gardens may be enlivened with flowers till the hard
% s t sets in and destroys them. We have still Salvia fulgens
in flower in our garden, nearly as fine as in Summer ; and
while writing this, it is the 8th of December, and should the
weather not set in very severe, we have no doubt but it will
remain in flower all the Winter; we also noticed the Lophospermum
in good health, at Messrs. Whitley’s Nursery, a few
days ago, by the side of a wall, in a somewhat sheltered border.
The present little plant is suflrutescent, and forms a neat
little bush in the border ; it will thrive well in the common
garden soil, and may be readily increased by planting young
cuttings under a hand-glass, in Spring, or cuttings, planted
in pots, and placed in a frame, or in a shady part of the Greenhouse,
will root without glass.
The generic name has no particular meaning ; it was given
entirely as a name to the genus; such names are generally
best, and least likely to cause confusion.
1. Capitulum cut through the centre to show the dotted favose receptacle, and the spreading
leaflets of the Involucrum. 2. Ray, with the seed at its base. 3. Floret of the disk, with
the seed at its base. 4. Floret spread open, to show the nerves. 5. The 5 Stamens, the filaments
distinct, and the anthers connected, and terminated with membranaceous appendages.
6. Seed, showing its double pappus, terminated by the Style and bifid Stigma.