C 3830 ) 
TAGETES CORYMBOSA. CORYMB-FLOWERED 
MARYGOLD. 
KKK EK KKK KEE KEKE ERE EEK 
Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Compositaz. Div. SENECIONIDEA. ) 
Generic Character. 
Capitulum radiatum aut rarissime subdiscoideum. IJnvo- 
lucri squame 1-seriales concrete in cupulam campanulatam 
cylindricamve apice dentatam. Receptaculum subalveola- 
tum. Achenia elongata basi attenuata, compresso-tetra- 
gona. Semen in achenio pedicellatum. Pappus simplex, 
paleis inequalibus, aliis obtusis subconcretis, aliis aristatis 
elongatis liberis—Herbe annue Americane sepius fetide 
raro suaveolentes, glandulis in foliorum laminis subrotundis 
pellucidis et in involucr. linearibus plus minus obsite. Folia 
opposita aut alterna, indivisa, serrata aut pinnatisecta, seg- 
mentis serratis integerrimisve. Capitula solitaria aut fasci- 
culata plus minus pedicellata. Corolle crocee seu flave. 
Ligule sepe (presertim in capitulis planis) bilabiate. DC._ 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Taceres* corymbosa ; caule erecto angulato apice corym- — 
-boso multifloro, foliis pinnatis, foliolis multijugis op- 
positis alternisque lanceolatis acutis basi ineequalibus 
angustatis argute serratis glanduloso-punctatis glabris, — 
involucro | 
* « A name which Fucusivs tells us is applied by APULEIUS to the Tansy, 
but which he himself adopts for a plant, not very dissimilar in foliage, now — e 
vulgarly called the Freud or African Marygold. He is followed by ae 
DiLLEN1vs, Linnazus, and every subsequent writer. DE Tus derives 
the word from Zages, an Etruscan deity, grandson of Jupiter, 
divination; and supposes the beauty of its flowers may have bate : 
plant this mythological appellation. Of this intention we can find no traces — 
in the above writers. : | oe: 
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