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A R C T O T 1 S P A R A D O X A.
Chamomile-leavcd Arctotis.
C L A S S XIX. ORDER IV.
SYNGEyESL'l POLYGAMIA NECESSJRIJ. Tips united. Necessary Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X coviinuiiis fabrotundus, imbricatus ;
fquamis inferioribus laxioribu?, fubulatis ;
mediis ovatis ; intimis oblongis : apice fcariolb,
rotundato, concavo.
COROLLA FO;HPOII<A radiata; corollulre hermaphrodita;
plurimre in difco. FeminiiiEe ligulatce,
fere vigiliti, difci diametro longiores.
Propria hermapliroditis infundibnlifermis ;
limbo quinquefido, apicibus reflexis, aeqiialibus.
iemiHcwligulsta, lanceolata, tenuiffime tridentata,
tubo breviflìmo.
STAMINA hermaphroditis; filaraenta quinque,
capillaria, breviflima. Antheracylindracea,
quinquedentata, longitudine coro!lul;e.
PisTiLLUM Hermaphroditìs -, germen vix manlfeiìum.
Stylus cylindraceus, corolla
paulo longior. Stigma fimplex.
Femineis germen ovato-tetragonum, villofum,
coronatum calyculo proprio. Stylus filiformis.
Scigmata duo, ovata-oblonga, craffuitcula,
ere£la.
PEKICAKPIUM nullum. Calyx immutatus. Semina
Hervìaphroditis nulla.
Femineis folitaria, fubrotunda, villofa. Pappus
perianthium proprium pentaphyllum ;
foliolis ovatis, patentibus, coronatus periantliii
proprii foliolis ovatis in orbem pofitis.
RECEPTACULUM pilolum feu paleaceum, planiul'culum.
EMPALE.MENT common roundiili, tiled; lower
fcales more loofe, awl lliaped ; middle ones
egg-fliaped; innermoll oblong; harlli,
rounded, concave at the point.
BLOSSOM compound raied; hermaphrodite florets
nnraerous in the centcr. Uf the Females
tongue-iliaped, nearly twenty, longer than
the diameter of the center.
Proper of the hermaphrodites fiinnel-fliaped ;
border five-cleft, ends reflexed, equal.
Of the Females tongne-fliaped, lance-lliaped,
flightly three-toothed ; tube very (liort.
CHIVES of ihe Hermaphrodites; five threads
hair-like, very lliort. Tip cylindric fivetoothed,
the length of the tloret.
P O I N T A L at iheHermaphrodites-, feed-bud fcarce
vifible. Shaft cylindric, a little longer than
the bloflbm. Summit fimple.
Of the Females feed-bud egg-fliaped fourcornered,
hairy, crowned by its proper cup.
Shaft thread-fliaped. Summits two, oblongegg
ihaped, thickith, upright.
SEED-VESSEL none. Empalement unchanged.
Seeds in the Hermaphrodites none.
In the Females folitary roundifh, hairy. Feather,
proper cup five-leaved ; leaflets, egg-
Ihaped, fpreading, crowned by the proper
cup with the leaflets placed in a round.
RECEPTACLE hairy or chaffy, flattifli.
S P E C I F I C CHAEACTER.
Arñotis flofculis radiantibus fteTilibus ; paleis
difco longioribus coloratis ; foliis bipinnatis,
linearibus.
Araotis with the florets of the circumference
flerile; chafi's coloured and longer than the
florets of the center; leaves doubly wingcd>
linear.
E E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. An inner Scale of the cup.
2. An outer Scale of the cup.
3. A Petal of the circumference, with its tubular bafe, which is fterile.
4. A chafly divifion of the florets of the center, magnified.
.5. A Female floret of the center, magnified.
6. The Chives of an Hermaphrodite floret, fpread open and magnified.
/ . The Pointal of an Hermaphrodite floret, natural fize.
8. The fame, magnified.
g. The Seed-bud of a female floret, natural fize, with its feather.
iO. The fame, magnified.
OF all the plants, numerous as they are, compofing this natural Clafs, we know of no one, the Virgilia
(a native of Peru, and introduced to us from the Paris gardens by Monf Thoin, about twenty
years ago, but fince loti to Europe,) excepted, which can rival our prefent fubjefit. It is a native of
the Cape of Good Hope, and is faid, in the Kew Catalogue, to have been introduced to that collection,
in 1774, by Mr. Matfon. Whether this is the A. paradoxa of Linn. Sp. IJ07. Vol. II, we arc
not certain, as the chaff, dividing the florets, is there defcribed as of nearly the lengtli of the ray,
giving the flower an appearance of doublenefs, and is there likewife marked as an annual. But, there
is little doubt of its being the plant intended in the Kew Catalogue, under our title; it is there made
biennial, which is its true charafter, as it does not flower the firfl; year from feeds. It may be propagated
by cuttings of the flrft year's growth ; delights in a light fandy loam, and flowers in July or
Auguli. Our drawing was made in 1802, from a plant in the Hibertian Colleftion ; which had been
railed from feeds, fent the preceding year, from the Cape, by Mr. Niven.