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COSMEA BIPINNATA. FlNE-LEAVED 

 COSMEA. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Syngenesia Frustranea. 



Generic Characler. 



Receptaculum paleaceum. Semina tetragona. Pappus 2 f. 4- 

 ariftatus. Calyx duplex, uterque monophyllus, fex — otto-panitus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



COSMEA bipinnata; foliis bipinnatis : foliolis lineari-fubulatis, 

 calycis exterioris laciniis ovatis. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 2250. 



COSMOS bipinnatus ; foliis connatis bipinnatis, pinnulis lineari- 

 canaliculatis. Cavan. Ic. 1. p. 10. /. 14. 



This beautiful plant, native of Mexico, was raifed from feeds, 

 procured from that country, at Boyton, the feat of A. B. 

 Lambert, Efq. by whom we were favoured with flowering 

 Specimens in the beginning of November laft. The fame 

 fpecies bloflbmed in the royal Botanical Garden in Madrid, in 

 Oclober, November, and December, in the year 1789, and 

 was defcribed and figured by the late Rev. Ant. Jos. Cava- 

 Ni lles, in the year 1791, in the firft volume of his Icones. 

 This author gave it the name of Cosmos, from its ornamental 

 appearance, fince changed by Willd enow to Cosmea, fuch 

 termination being more confonant with botanical ufagc. 



Both external and internal calyx are defcribed by Cava- 

 n illes as eight-cleft ; but the number of fegments of the former, 

 ln the fpecimens we have feen, have varied from fix to feven. 



.The plant does not appear to be new in the country, as it is 

 laid by Donn to have been introduced in 1804. This author 

 marks it as perennial; but, according to Cavanilles, it is 

 an nual. If brought fufficiently forward by artificial heat, H 

 Vl11 certainly flower the firft year, and then probably penflu 



