hispid and scabrous plant, very variable in foliage, 
differing according to Ker (and this is borne out by the 
Cambridge specimen) in this respect of scabridity, in the 
want of subulate or acicular shaggy outer scales of the 
involucre, and in the larger and differently coloured flowers. 
There are no doubt all characters of degree, as an examina- 
tion of a suite of Herbarium specimens of A. aspera shows ; 
but if they are not taken into account, and if A. aureola is 
to be merged in A. aspera, so must not a few other species 
of the genus. i 
Mr. Lynch points out that his plant differs from the type 
figured in the Register in being weak and straggling instead 
of stiff and erect, and that unlike A. awreola it strikes freely 
from cuttings, on which account he suggests that it should 
bear some distinctive name; but I think it would be inex- 
pedient to found varieties of exotic plants grown in gardens 
on such characters, and in the present chaotic state of the 
genus Arctotis, it is very undesirable to multiply names ; 
and all the more in this case, because the genus is not, and 
never will be, an established one in the gardens of this 
country, the plants not being long-lived, and requiring 
favourable seasons for their full development out of doors. 
Mr. Lynch’s specimens were received from Mr. Max 
Leichtlin, of Baden-Baden, and flowered in April last. The 
flowers were exceptionally fine, and this is attributed by 
Mr. Lynch to grafting on the more robust A. aspera, var. 
arborescens (see Plate 6528); it may, however, be suspected 
that the hot season may have had more effect than this. 
A. revoluta, Jacq., also a Cape plant, of which a head is 
figured on the plate, was received from Mr. Lynch with the 
above; in white cottony clothing, and the form, &c., of the 
leaves, it closely resembles A. aureola, but the outer 
involucral scales are much narrower, with tomentose tips, 
and the others have no black border.—J. D. H. 
_Fig. 1, Flower of ray; 2, outer and inner pappus scale of ditto; 3, style arms of 
ditto ; 4, flower of disk ; 5, tip of petal; 6, anther; 7, style arms :—all enlarged. 
