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 Zinnia Tenuiflora. Slender-Flowered 



Zinnia. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. paleaceum. Pappus ariftis 2 ereclis. Cat, ovato- 

 eylindricus, imbricatus. Flofculi radii pauci perfiftentes, m- 

 tegri. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ZINNIA tenuiflora; floribus pedunculatis: radio lineari re- 

 voluto-patenti fcabro, feminibus difci uni-ariftatis. 



ZINNIA tenuiflora; foliis feflilibus ; floribus pedunculatis, 

 feminibus hermaphroditarum hinc donatis anita 

 longiflirna, illinc gemino mucrone breviflimo. Jacq- 

 CollecJ. 5. p. 159. Icon. torn. 3. 590. 



This lively annual, which grows to the height of two ° r 

 three feet and divides into feveral branches, is mod probably 

 a native of South- America. It was, we believe, firit raifed in 

 this country, in the garden of Edward Woodford, Efq. a J 

 Vauxhall, from feed fent to him by Monf. Thou in, national 

 Gardener in Paris. Should be fown in the Spring upon a 

 common hot-bed, with balfams and other tender annuals, and 

 planted out into the open border the latter-end of May, where 

 it will continue to bloffom for fome months and produce ripe 

 feeds in favourable weather. 



It has been well figured by Jacquin, in his Icones plants 

 rum rariorum, and defcribed in his collectanea; to which de- 

 fcription we have nothing to add, but that the florets of the 

 radius, in the fpecimens we have feen, are fharp-pointed, very 

 rough to the touch, and of a lively pale green colour under- 

 neath, not a dingy white, as he defcribes them. 



