it is a strong-growing plant, raised in the open air by Mr. 
Guover of Manchester, from seeds imported from Mexico 
by his friend Mr. Leeps. It blossoms in the autumn, a 
season, when flowers that can give gaiety to our open 
borders, are peculiarly acceptable. 
Descr. Stem tall, rounded, branched, hairy, the branches 
opposite, from the axils of the foliage. Leaves opposite, 
sessile, the bases (scarcely a petiole) amplexicaul, ovate, 
acute, serrated, triple-nerved, rough to the touch and 
wrinkled with numerous, reticulated veins, paler beneath. 
Peduncles short, terminal, sometimes solitary, at other 
times arranged in a sort of corymb of few capitula. Florets 
deep orange-yellow: those of the ray ligulate, female, the 
ligule elliptical, nerved, notched at the apex: the tubular 
portion slender. Young achenium obovate, compressed, 
two winged, and with two angles ; wings and angles termi- 
nating in chaffy, lanceolato-acuminate, more or less ser- 
rated scales. Palee of the receptacle also clothed with 
acuminated, chaffy scales. Florets of the disk perfect. Co- 
rollas tubular, five-lobed. Achenia nearly as in the ray, 
but with the angles less prominent and less acute. Pappus 
nearly the same. Branches of the style spreading, much 
longer than the anther tube. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk, with a Scale of the 
Receptacle. 3. Scales of the Pappus :—magnijfied. 
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