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 Othonna Pectinata. Wormwood- 

 Leaved Othonna. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Necessaria. 



Generic Charatler. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus fubnullus, Cal. l-phyllus multifidu* 

 fubcylindricus. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



OTHONNA -peelinata foliis pinnatifidis: laciniis linearibus 

 paralle'lis. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p* 

 793. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 276. 



JACOB^EA afneana frutefcens, foliis abfinthii umbelliferi 

 incanis. Comm. hort. 2. p. 137. t. 69. 



The Othonna peElinata is a native of Africa, a long-eftablifned 

 and common plant in greenhoufes, having been cultivated by 

 4v!r. Miller, in 1731; it recommends itfelf chiefly on ac- 

 count of its foliage, which forms a pleafing contrail to the 

 darker greens of other plants. 



It flowers in May and June, is moderately hardy, and readily 

 increafed by cuttings. 



In many collections we meet with old plants of it three or 

 four feet high ; formerly, when greenhoufe plants were few 

 in number and the houles large, it might be proper to keep 

 fuch ; but now there is not that necelhtv, efpecially fince the 

 *ail acceffion of plants Irurn the Cape and New-Holland, made 

 within thefe few years. 



