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_VERNONIA* axilliflóra. 
Awillary-flowered Vernonia. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEQUALIS. 
Nat. ord. Comrosırz Juss. Tribus Vernoniee Cassini. (Introduction 
to the natural system of Botany, p. 197.) 
VERNONIA.— Supra, vol. 6. fol. 522. 
V. arilliflora; caule fruticoso ramoso, foliis ovatis acutis pilosis subtüs 
tomentosis margine undulatis, capitulis sessilibus subsolitariis axillaribus 
foliis brevioribus, involucri foliolis membranaceis coloratis ex ovato 
subellipticis apice obtusis mucronulatis v. ciliatis. 
V. axilliflora. Lessing in Linnea, vol. 4. p. 297. 
A beautiful little stove plant, flowering all the year 
round, and propagated with the greatest facility from cut- 
tings, which will blossom when only a few inches high. 
M. Lessing, who is the only Botanist that has described 
this plant, had seen no wild specimens, and only conjec- 
tured it to be a native of some part of Brazil. It appears 
to be very common about Bahia, for we have specimens out 
of the Horticultural Society's Collections, gathered there 
by Mr. George Don; and recently we have received it 
* ** So named by Schreber, in memory of Mr. William Vernon, Fellow of 
St. Peter's College, Cambridge, who, towards the end of the seventeenth 
century, made a voyage to Maryland, in company with Dr. David Kreig, a 
German physician, of which Botany was the principal object. Their Her- 
barium, consisting, as is said, of several hundred new. plants, came into the 
possession of Sir Hans Sloane, and contributed to enrich the Supplement, or 
third volume of Ray's Historia Plantarum. A North American genus, 
therefore, is peculiarly proper to commemorate Mr. Vernon; whose merits 
às an accurate and industrious English Botanist are, moreover, recorded by 
Ray in the preface to his Synopsis, edit. 2d. ; and his name often occurs in 
the Cryptogamic part of that work. We find no further mention of this 
gentleman ; nor does he appear any where as an author. — Smith in Rees. 
