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P L A T E CCCCVII.
C A L E N D U L A DENTATA.
Toothed-leaved Marygold.
C L A S S XIX. ORDER IV.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIC NECESSARIA. Tips united. Necessary
Polygamy.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
RECEPTACULUM nudum. Pappus nullus.
Calyx polyphyllus, subaequalis. Semina
disci utplurimum membranacea.
RECEPTACLE naked. Pappus none. Empale^
ment many-leaved, nearly equal. The
seeds of the disk chiefly membranous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
CALENDULA, foliis alternis linearibus remóte
et acute dentatis; caule fruticoso decumbente.
MAKYGOLD, witli alternate linear remotely
and acutely dentated leaves, and a decumbent
shrubby stem.
Calendula dentata. Donns Hort. Cantab, ed. 3. l63.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A floret of the circumference.
3. A floret of the disk.
4. The same laid open and magnified, to show the situation of the chives.
5. The pointal, witli the summit detached and magnified.
ALTHO-UGH this species of Calendula appears to have been introduced to the British gardens so long
since as the year 1790, from the Cape of Good Hope, its native country; I do not find it enumerated
either in Mr. Alton's Hortus Kevifensis or Gmelin's edition of Systema Naturae; but it will in all probability
be taken up in Willdenow's Species Plantarum, when he arrives at that part of it which is to
include the genus Calendula.
I t is well known in the gardens by the applicable name of dentata, but is not a common plant,—
although, from the beauty and size of its flowers, highly worthy of general cultivation : its branches are
weak, yet fchrubby ; and require support.
It is a green-house plant, and is propagated by cuttings in the usual way. Our drawing was made
from the Clapham collection in July last,
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