De Canpotte ; yet such is really the case, and its fine large 
bright and deep yellow blossoms, continuing, as they do, in 
perfection for a great part of the summer months, render it 
really worthy a place in our gardens. It was introduced 
from California by Mr. Doveas, and has been extensively 
distributed by the Horticultural Society. 
Descr. Plant annual. Stems two to three feet long 
in our gardens, (scarcely one foot in our wild specimens, ) 
dichotomously branched and rather straggling. Branches 
terete, as thick as a goose-quill, green, covered with an 
arachnoid, woolly down. Leaves alternate, reflexed, three 
to five inches long, ligulate, or being broader below, ovato- 
ligulate, obsoletely toothed, spreading and more or less 
recurved, dark-green above, paler beneath, the base both 
above and below, more or less woolly. Peduncles terminal, 
solitary, one-flowered. Involucre broadly-campanulate, mo- 
nophyllus, the tube broad, turbinate, very woolly, the limb 
spreading, cut into about eight to ten acute, triangular, 
scarcely villous lobes. Receptacle conical, dotted, epalea- 
ceous. Ray of from eight to nine, large, ligulate fertze flo- 
rets. Corolla with the tube cylindrical (swollen at the base), 
clothed with spreading, glandular hairs. Lamina broadly- 
ovate, large, cut into three deep lobes: at the base isa 
small spathulate, fimbriated appendage, so that the corolla . 
may almost be called two-lipped. Style rather shorter than 
the tube. Stigmas slightly protruded. Achenium obovate, 
somewhat triquetrous. In the central florets, the achenium 
is similar, but a little broader ; the corolla tubular, deep 
orange, with five glandular teeth. Anthers slightly pro- 
truded, and the branches of the style still longer. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Involucre showing the Receptacle: nat. size. 2. 
Radial Floret with the appendage at the base of the Lamina. 3. Tubular 
Floret: magnified. 4. Lower Leaf > nat, size. 
