The ordinary state of this pretty plant is given at t. 2512, 
where it will be seen that the flower is a bright and full 
yellow colour, with a deep blackish-purple or blood-red 
eye. Cultivation shows that these colours are liable to 
vary, and has made us acquainted with a state of this plant 
of great beauty and richness as concerns the flower. In 
some specimens the whole of the ray is atro-sanguineous ; in 
others there is a tawny narrow margin, forming, as it were, 
a kind of limb around it. Mixed with the common yellow 
sort in large patches, they add greatly to the charms of a 
flower-garden. 
Our specimen here figured was from the garden of Mr. 
James Tarr, Merry Flats, and was one of the twelve best 
species of hardy annuals which gained the prize at the 
September Meeting (1835) of the Glasgow Hoticultural 
Society. 
Fig. 1. Floret from the Disk :—Magnified. 
