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CALENDULA Tragus- (3. 



Grey-leaved orange-coloured Qapc-mary^old 



SYNC.KXESIA POLYGAMIA NECESStRLL 



CslLENDUL/f. liCcept. nudum. Tlores ratliuti ; /lose, centrales 

 masculi, ambientes hmnapliroditi ; ligulm foemiueai. CaL simplex, 

 polypbyllua, requalis. San. disci membranacea, marginalia diversa ab 

 iuterioribus. Pappus nullus. llerlxe aid J)/// ices, Ploressapc solitmii 



terminates. Jussieu, ceo. IS;J: mutatis nonnullis. 



C. Tragus, caule suft'i uticoso, debili ; foliis sparse, ligulato-lincai *ibus, 

 ciliolatis, acumine brevi ; seminibus subor!>i< ulatis. 



Calendula Tragus. Hurt. Kck\ 3. WfU eel. 2. o. 168. 1VUUL $p. pi. 



3. '2345. 

 (a) foliis carnosulis, firmulis, integris v. rariter dentatis, virentibits, bre- 



vissime villosis, hispidiusulis, subtus-elevato-puncticulatis, balsamic^ 



odoratis; radio discolori, ligulis subplicato-striatis. 

 Calendula Tragus. Cart. mag. 408. J acq. hort. schocab. 2. 14. t. 



153. 

 (/3) foliis carnosulis, flaccidis omnibus integerrimis, ciliatis, nudis, (ad 



lentem) puncticulato-pruinosis, gluucissiiuis, inodoris ; radio concolori, 



ligulis explicatissimis estriatis. 

 Calendula flaccid a. Venten. malm. 20. 

 C. Tragus. 0. Persoon. si/n. 2. 4{)2. 

 C. Tragus. Kamig in Ann. of Pot. 1. 380. 



Suffrutex vix lignescens, 2-4-pedalis, ereclus, ranwsus, debilis : rami 

 axillares, teretes, laxe foliosi, in pedunculum Ion gum \-Jlorum nudiuscidum 

 obsoletius striatum subvillosum tactui scabridulum product i. Folia sessilia % 

 surrecta, 2-4 uncias longa, 2-4 lineas lata, obtusula cum brevi acuminc 9 

 inferiora versus basin attenuata ; in ramis nondumjlorifcris injascicu/um ap- 

 proximata. Cal. virens, oblato-campamdatus, hispidulus ; tegmenta lanceo- 

 lata, acuta, erecta, margine membranacea. Floret ampU, disco nigricantes. 

 Flosc. radii steriles, totidem quot calycis segmenta, liguld oblongata, uncia 

 longioriy apice obtusata, angustissime 3-dentata ; tubus brevis, extits e pilis 

 brevibus articulatis villosus, germini inverse pyramidato triqnetro cequalis : 

 modo adsunt stigmata 2 linearia replicata in stylo brevi, modo desunt omnino. 

 Flosc. disci numerosi, vix lineas 2 excedentes 9 arrecto~5-fidi, pubescentes ; 

 anth.Jicscce, emicantes ; stigmata partim exsertajusca, in hermaph. recurvo- 

 patentia, in masc. clavato-contigua : germing obcordato<omplanata, mem- 

 branaceo-alata, glaberrima 9 centri sterilia, periphaeriae Jertilia. Kecept. 

 scrobiculato-punctatum. 



Had we relied simply on our own judgment, we should 

 probably, as well as Monsieur Ventenat, have separated 

 this plant into a distinct species from Tragus, and said 

 that it was intermediate between that and oppositrfolia ; ap- 



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