Cultivated in the Paris Garden in 1778, from seed col- 

 lected at Vera Cruz by M. Thierry. Established as a dis- 

 tinct genus by Professor Desfontaines in 1780. 



Now first introduced into this countiy by the Horti- 

 cultural Society, with whom it flowered in their garden at 

 Hammei-smith towards the end of last summer. 



A very handsome outdoors annual, requiring to be 

 raised in the spring upon a hotbed. The flowers have 

 something the appearance of the French Marygold, but are 

 of a different and much finer yellow. We suspect that the 

 plant will not ripen seed very readily either here or m 

 Fi-ance, in which last country it has been long since lost. 



We find samples of the species, gathered in Jammca by 

 Mr. Wiles, in the Lambertian Herbarium. 



An attentive examination of the samples of Helianthus 

 tubcefarmh, in the same Herbarium, has convinced us that 

 that species should be included in Tithonia, with which it 

 agrees throughout in habit and character. There is likewise 

 an unrecorded species in the same Herbarium, brought by 

 Mr. Cowan from the Havannah ; and this, we believe, will 

 also be found to belong to Heliopsis. 



We had not room for any of the lower three-lobed leaves 

 in our plate, where only the upper entire ones are shown. 



The genus comes near to Helianthus, but there the 

 calyy is in many rows of leaflets and squarrose, the recep- 

 tacle nearly flat, and the seedcrown of two caducous ge- 

 nerally cuspidated palese. Don MSS. 



