L E P T O S T É LM A maximum.
Great Mexican Daisy.
C la s s é O rd e r. S Y N G E N E S IA P O L Y G A M IA S U P E R F L U A .
N a tu r a l Order. C OM PO S ITÆ . A d am o n .fam .2 . p .W d .
a. L «d/^VTT A S T E R E Æ . Cass.— TVifttts B e l l i d e æ .
L E P T O S T E L M A . JmpoZmctotoæquale, liemisphoericum. R e c e pU a ilum
paleaceum. F lo sc id i radii ligulati, fcemiimi ; d is c i hermaphroditi, tubulosi,
o la t f r îo n g “ acuminatis, adpressis, æqualibus RecepiacnZnm convexum,
T Z T “ U m , . M c ~ . y i ü . r ü . D i— 1 . . « . . P . P . 7 . M » .
L.pto.Mlma „ . « i. u b ” b . D » « . . . « . » « • « ■ “ «'• P- 3»‘'-
Erigeron maximum. Otto H o rt. be) ol.
“ A native of Mexico ; a plant of which was obtained by
Mr Hunnemann, in the Autumn of 1827, from the Berlin
Botanic Garden, for Robert Barclay, Esq. m whose collection
it flowered last Autumn. The copious and slender rays of
the heads of flowers render it a highly ornamental plant,
has been referred to Erigeron, but its chaffy 'receptacle essentially
distinguish it from the various groups into which that
o-enus has been divided ; the herbaceous involucrum composed
of a simple or double series of equal leaflets, and the
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