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Tagetes tenui folia. Fine-leaved Tagetes 

 or Peruvian Marygold. 



Class and Order. 

 Syngenesia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus aristis 5, erectis. Cal. simplex, 

 1-piiyllus, 5-dentatus, tubulosus. Flosculi radii 5, per- 

 sistentes. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Tagetes tenuifolia ; foliis pinnatis, foliolis linearibus serratis, 

 serraturis inferioribus elongatis, caulepaniculato, pedun- 

 culis alternis unifloris, calycibus clavatis. Willd. Sp 

 PL 3. p. 2128. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 89. 



Tagetes tenuifolia; caule ramoso, floribus patulis sub- 

 corymbosis, pedunculis foliosis. Cav. ic. 2. ». 54. 

 t. 169. * 



Descr. Stem branched, erect. Leases opposite below, alter- 

 nate above, pinnate, with leaflets very narrow, deeply dentate, 

 mostly alternate. Flowers in a lax corymb. Peduncles one- 

 flowered. Calyx simple, tubular, obovate, five-angled, five- 

 toothed. Radius 5-flowered, tube filiform : limb 2-nerved, 

 o- toothed, folded back; teeth very obtuse : Germen rough : 

 pappus paleaceous. Tube of the florets of the disk filiform : 

 limb 4-cleft : Receptacle hemispherical, punctate. Taste 

 of the leaves nauseous with a slight mixture of aromatic. 



It appears by a specimen preserved in the Banksian herba- 

 rium, that this species was cultivated by Mr. William 

 Malcolm in 1797, but being an annual and flowering late, it 



was 



