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ARCTOTIS aspera. 

 Rough-leaved Arctotis. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARTJ. 



ARCTOTIS. Supra foL 32. 



A. aspera, fruticosa ; foliis indentatis v. profundc pinnatifidis, supra 



subarachnoideis, asperius hirsutiusque villosis; appendiculis squama- 



rum extiraarum calycis revolutis, subulatis, hirsutis. 

 Arctotis aspera (a). Lin. sp. pi. 2. 1.307. Hort. Kczc. 3. 273. ed. 2. 5. 



173. Willd. sp. pi 3. 2356. 

 A. arborescens. J acq. hort. schoenb. 2. 23. t. 171; (exhibcm frustrum 



caidis plants senescentis cum ramo inferiore Jlon ifero, Joins macrescen- 



tibus profundi; pinnatifdis.) Wilid. sp. pi. 3. 2357. 

 A. foliis pinnato-laciniatis crispis caule ranioso fruticoso. Mill. diet. ed. 



7. n. 8. 

 Anemonospermos africana, fol. cardui benedicti, florum radiis intus albis. 



Comm. hort. 2. 45. t. 23. 



Planta tota ex villis densis asperiasculis pubi subarachnoidete interspersis 

 hirsuta. Folia lyrato-spathidata, v. indentata, v. sinuata, v. profundi; pinna- 

 tifda, supra viridi-cana, subtiis candicantia. Pedunculi subscapiformes, 

 hirsuti, sidcati, modb Jbliolis sicbbinis vagis remote stipati. Pollen lutcum. 

 Stylus chloroleucus. Ccetera omnia, prceter colorem 8f qua supra in charactere 

 specif co distinximus, fere Arctotidis aureolvefol. super. 32. Flos tamen 

 minor calyxque a?zgustior. 



It is not always an easy task to recognise the species of 

 this family, owing to the variation in their foliage, especi- 

 ally when viewed under the different aspects imparted by 

 age or luxuriance of growth ; a circumstance that may have 

 been the cause why the present has not been known by 

 Jacquin as the aspera of Linnaeus, but been published 

 that botanist under a new name. The figure he has given 

 is of a specimen of a fragment of the stem, to which only 

 a lower branch is attached; in this the leaves are all deeply 

 pinnatifid with a narrow disk, as is usual, as far as we have 

 seen, in all branches of old plants of this species. 



We have been amused by observing the newly expanded 

 flowers of this and aureola, on a bright warm day, under 

 the shelter of a greenhouse; when the stigmas of the barren 

 florets may be perceived to emerge from within the tube of 

 the concealed anthers, carrying up the pollen parted 



With to them by those organs, and which is seen to adhere 



