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Dahlia Coccinea. Scarlet-Flowered 



Dahlia. 



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CYa/V #»*/ Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua." 



Generic Charafier. 



Cal. 2-plex. Cor. radiata radiis lacinias calycis numero 

 aequantibus : corollul* pedicellatae. Recept. paleaceum. Stig- 

 mata plumofa. Pappus o. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



DAHLIA coccinea ; foliis impari-pinnatis fcabris, calyce ex- 

 terno pentaphyllo reflexo : interno multipartito. 



DAHLIA coccinea; foliis bipinnatis: pinnulis ovato-acuminatis 

 ferratis. Cavan. Icon. 266. 



Of the genus Dahlia* there are three fpecies defcribed 

 by Cavanilles, in his Icones et Defcripliones Plantarum, 

 with neither of which our plant exactly correfponds, but we 

 fuppofe it to belong to his coccinea : the circumftance of the 

 lower pinnae of the leaf in his plant being again divided into 

 three leaflets, may arife from too luxurious growth. In the 

 roughnefs of the upper furface of the leaves, the reflected 

 five-leaved outer calyx, the deep divifion of the fegments of 

 the inner, the fize and colour of the corolla, the number of 

 the radius, and in the height of the ftalk, both plants per- 

 fectly correfpond. The paleae of the receptacle are yellow, 



So named by M. Cavanilles in honour of Andrew Dahl, a 

 Swedifh Botanift, Author of Obfervationes Botanic*, and not to be confounded 

 wuh Dale a of Hart. Cliff, and Jussjeu, a plant named after Dale the friend 

 of Rat. 



lanceolate, 



