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Zinnia Multiflora. Many-Flowered 



Zinnia. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Characler. 



Recept. paleaceum. Pappus ariftis 2 ere&is. Cal. ovato- 

 cylindricus, imbricatus. Flo/cult radii 5-10, perfiftentes, 

 integri. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ZINNIA multiflora floribus pedunculatis. Linn. Syft. Vep 

 ed. 14. Murr. p. 777. 



The Zinnia multiflora, a native of Louifania, is a plant of 

 more modern introduction, but requires the fame treatment, 

 and flowers at the fame time, as the Tagetes patula, with 

 which, though far inferior in brilliancy of colour, it contri- 

 butes to decorate the borders of the flower-garden from June 

 to September. 



There is a variety of it with yellow flowers, nearly as com- 

 mon in our gardens as the prefent plant. 



Linnaeus gave to this genus the name of Zinnia, in ho- 

 nour of Joh. Gottfr. Zinn, the pupil of Haller, and his 

 fucceffor at the Univerfity of Gottingen. 



The plant we have figured, anfwers to the name and to the 

 fpecific defcription of JLinn^eus's multiflora; having never 

 feen his pauciflora t we cannot fay whether there be any juft 

 caufe for fufpe&ing them to be varieties of each other. 



