PLATE CLXXXIX.
Z I N N I A V E R T I C I L L A T A .
Double Zinnia.
CLASS XIX. ORDER II.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLU A. Tips united. Superfluous Pointais.
It c e Ë P T A c u LU M paleaceum. Pappusariffis2ereclis.
Calyx ovato-cylindrícus, imbricatus.
Flofculi radii 5, perlifientes, integri.
RECEPTACLE chaffy. Feather with 2 upright awns.
Empalement cylindrical-egg-ill aped, and
tiled. Florets of the ray 5, remaining and
See Z I N N I A VIOLACEA. Pl. LV. Vol. I.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Zinnia foliis verticillatis, feflilibus; floribua f Zinnia with leaves growing in whorls without
p e d u n c u l a t i s ; flofculi radii fa:pc tría feries, i foot-ílalks clofe to the fiero; flowers with
foot-fialks; the florets of the ray often
|i three rows.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. An outer female Floret of the ray, the feed attached, a l i t t le larger than nature.
2. An inner hermaphrodite Floret of the dint, with its feed and lkinny chaff, magnified.
3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed of an hermaphrodite Floret, divefled of its corolla, magnified.
T H E Englifli fpecific title to this plant, fliould feem to imply, that t h e flowers are fuch, as fliould not
come i n t o our arrangement; but, as the character is not cunltanl in all the flowers, even on the fame
plant, it cannot be coiilidi-red but as a fpecific character in this p a r t i c u l a r fpecics, though the name has
i t s proper force, in contradillinction to its congeners, in our language. It is a native of Mexico, South
America; and was introduced to our gardens about t h e y e a r l 7 8 Q , by Moils' Richard, from the Paris
gardens, at t h e lame time will: the Virgilia; a m o d beautiful annual, of the habit of Arctotis, now
loft in both countries from the difficulty of procuring ripened feeds. It is to be raifed in the fame
manner as the other Ipccies, on a gentle hot-bed, in March, and planted out the beginning of May.
T h e flowers make their appearance about t h e beginning of Auguft, and continue, in fucceflion, till they
are dellroyed by t h e fxoft. To be certain of the feed, the heads mull be taken from the plant, whilff
t h e y appear yet frefli; as the petals are pertinent, and have not the appearance of entire decay, though
t h e feed is nearly r i p e ; for if t h e receptacle once begins to rot, (which it is very fitbject to,) the feeds
are immediately contaminated and fpoilt. Our figure was taken, this year, at t h e Hammerfmith Nurfery,
where, it was grown rirlt in this kingdom.