the autumn, and either to pot them or place them in a box 



of dry sand or mould during winter, secured from frost and 

 damp. 



The plant flowers from the middle of August to the end 



of September in any good 



particularly if 



Like many Mexican Comp 



peat 

 it 



and sand be adde _ _ _ 



flowers so late that it seldom ripens seeds in the open border 

 but a few plants kept in the green-house will do so ; it is 



only by seeds that the species can be increased with any cer- 

 tain ty . 



/ The seeds should be sown about the end of March in rich 



soil, on a nearly exhausted hot-bed, and treated like those of 



half-hardy perennials ; keeping them in pots the first season, as 



they will not flower before the second year. The seedlings 



must not be planted out in the open border before the middle 

 of May. 



i 



^ Fig. 1 is a floret of the ray with a nearly smooth achse- 

 nium, and a tooth-like lobe proceeding from the inner edge 

 of the mouth of the tube. Fig. 2. is a floret of the disk, with 



of the receptacle ; the former has a tomentose orarv 



and a corolla whose tube 



and then ventricose above the 



contracted just above the base 



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