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HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. Many-FLow- © 
ERED OF PERENNIAL SUN-FLOWER. 
eS Clafs and.Order. ae 
NGENESIA PotyGaMita FRUSTRANEA. ~~ - 
Generic Charafer. 
Recepl'p 
Ale: aceum, : planum. Pappu $ 2-phyllus. 
catus, fubfquarrofus. aa 
“al. imbri- 
ey pecific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
HELIANTHUS multifforus foliis inferioribus cordatis tri- a 
nervatis fuperioribus ovatis. Linn. Sy/. 
| Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 781. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM americanum majus perenne, floris 
folis foliis ‘et floribus. Mori/. Hif. — 
3+ P+ 23+ 
The ‘Helianthus multiflorus, a native of North-America, is 
ahardy perennial herbaceous plant, arifing ufually to the height 
of five or fix feet, and producing a great number of largé 
yellow fhewy bloffoms, which renders it a fuitable plant to 
ornament the fhrubbery or garden of large extent; the variety 
with double flowers is the one moft commonly cultivated, and 
this we find in almoft every garden: it flowers from July to 
September, and is propagated by parting its roots inautumn. 
This is a hardy plant, of ready growth, will bear the fmoke — 
of London better than many others; if it continues in the 
fame fpot for a great number of years, the bloffoms are apt 
to become fingle. 
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The fingle fort, according to Morison, was introduced 
before 1699 by Lord Lemsrer. Ait. Kew. 7 
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