( 1804 ) 

 Lagasca mollis. Soft-leaved Lagasca. 



Class and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Segregata. 



Generic Character. 



Involucrum 5-phyllum, foliaceum simplici serie. Calyculus 

 1 -floras, 5-dentatus. Corollulm tubulosae hermaphrodite. 

 Recept. alveolatum, villosissimum. Pappus 0. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Lagasca mollis. HenckelaDonnersm.adumb. p. 30. Cavan. 



in Anales de ciencias naturales v. 6. p. 331. 

 Lagascea mollis. Willd. Enwn. p. 942. 



Descr. An annual plant, covered in every part with a 

 soft velvet-like pubescence. Leaves opposite, at the divi- 

 sions into branches alternate, petioled, ovate-acuminate, 

 subserrate ; sometimes quite entire. Flowers terminal, ca- 

 pitate. Involucre, in our specimens, always five-leaved in 

 a simple series, with two or three small accessory leaflets 

 within them : leaflets ovate, unequal in size, sessile. Re- 

 ceptacle alveolar, with a fine long down in the interstices. 

 Calycle tubular at the base, five-toothed. Florets tubular, 

 with five-cleft spreading border. Anthers easily separating, 

 terminated with a spathula-shaped appendix. Germen without 

 pappus. Stigma revolute. 



The name of Lagasca was given to this plant by M . 

 Cavanilles, in honour of his pupil, and since his successor, 

 Don Mariano Lagasca. 



A tender annual, propagated by seeds only, and requires 

 to be kept in the stove or hot-bed. Flowers in August and 

 September. Native of the Island of Cuba. Communicated 

 by Mr. Anderson, curator of the Apothecaries Garden, at 

 Chelsea. Mr. Lambert raised it also at Boyton last summer, 

 from seeds brought from Havannah, by Mr. Cowan, 



