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ovate, acute, recurved and spreading, minutely pubescent
teeth. Anthers dark-brown, connate into a tube, naked at
the base, terminated by an ovate-lanceolate, acute appendage.
Filaments slender, white, glabrous. Style filiform, the
branclies long, linear, ex-appendiciilate, spirally twisted;
those of the'disk-florets longitudinally hairy behind. Achenia
obfusiform, those of the disk villous ; of the ray glabrous,
rather more compressed, destitute of pappus, and crowned
by an elevated truncate disk. Pappus present in the florets
of the disk only, composed of a single series of about 25
nearly equal, scabrous, grey bristles, arising from the margin
of the elevated disk.
A highly interesting genus, first established by Fischer and
Meyer in the Appendix to the Catalogue of Seeds of the
Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg for 1835. It
evidently comes near to the Madaroglossa of De Candolle,
but is essentially distinguished from that genus by its involucrum
and raj’S being arranged in a double series, by its
bristly pappus composed of an indefinite number of rays, and
lastly by its naked rhachis.
It is a native of the Russian Colony of Ross in New California,
and was introduced to our collections in the spring of
last year from seeds received from M. de Fhscher, the learned
and indefatigable director of the above-mentioned establishment.
The plant is a hardy annual, and is in our opinion well
entitled to a place in the flower border, from its dwarf and
slender habit, and numerous, broad, wedge-shaped, spreading
rays of a rich golden colour, which, contrasted with the dark
purple anthers of the disk florets, produce a pretty effect.
The specimens, whence our drawing was taken, were
communicated in October last by Miss Anna Maria Benett,
from her garden at Norton House, Wilts, where many rare
and curious plants are most successfully cultivated under the
superintendence of its amiable and accomplished possessor.
The generic name alludes to the rich golden colour of its
flower, and is compounded of k u X X o s , beautiful, and
colour. D . Don.
1. Rav floret, 2. Disk floret.
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