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Calendula chrysanthemifolia. Large- 

 Flowered Marygold. 



Class and Order. 



SrNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA NeCESSARIA. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus 0. Cal polyphyllus, asqualis. 

 Sem. disci merabranacea. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Calendula chrysanthemifolia ; foliis cuneato-obovatis lyrato- 

 incisis scabriusculis, caule fruticoso erecto. Hovt. Kew. 

 ed. alt. o. p. 169. Bot Reg. 40. 



Calendula chrysanthemifolia ; foliis obovatis sublyratis sca- 

 briusculis, caule suftruticoso. Vent. Malm. 56. Pers. 

 Syn. 2. p. 492. Lam. Encycl. 7. p. 278. 



This shewy shrub has very much the habit of Osteosper- 

 mum, and was formerly known in our gardens under the name 

 ©f Osteospermum grandiflorum. M. Ventenat, who first 

 described this plant as a species of Calendula considers it as 

 partaking- of the characters of both genera, and speaks of the 

 florets of the disk being all barren ; we did not however find 

 that to be the case in our plant, very many of the florets of 

 the disk having as perfect ovaria as those of the radius. 



According to Ventenat the flowers open about eleven in 

 the forenoon, and close again by three or four in the after- 

 noon ; they are the largest in the genus, but scarcely so 

 large as this author describes them, when he says they are 

 twice the size of those of the China Aster. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope, requiring the protection 

 or the Greenhouse in the winter season. Flowers freeiy most 

 part of the summer. Our drawing was made many years ngo 

 in the month of April, from a plant in the nursery at Ken- 

 *'ngton, at that time belonging to Messrs. Grimwood and 

 ♦Vykes. Introduced by Mr. Masson in the year 1790. 



