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ceous. Radical florets ligulate, very long, with a slender tubular 
base. Ovary obovate, furrowed, bearing one or more sete: 
style with the branches subulate. orets of the disc tubular, 
five-toothed, of the ovary as in the ray, sete three to six. Style 
much longer than the stamens, branches dilated upwards, 
downy. eceptacle foveolate. W. J. H. 
Cutt. A stout plant, growing freely during the summer 
months in the open air, and making a showy appearance when 
in flower. Towards autumn the stem becomes hard and woody ; 
after flowering, the stem and roots are exhausted and die, 
showing that the plant is only a biennial. Like many Mexican 
Composite, it does not freely ripen seeds; but it may be 
readily mereased by cuttings, which should be struck so as to 
have them established by the end of the summer, the young 
plants being kept in a cool airy place till the spring, when they 
may be planted out in the flower-borders. /. 8. 
Fig. 1. Radial floret. 2. Floret of the disc. 3. Portion of the receptacle: 
—magnified. 
