is an old inhabitant of our gardens, where it is a hardy, her- 
baceous plant, flowering in the autumn. 
Descr. Stem erect, herbaceous, obtusely angular, much 
branched. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, triple-nerved 
and veiny, smooth, acuminate, coarsely serrated, the upper 
ones with winged petioles, the uppermost of all nearly ses- 
sile. Peduncles mostly terminal, single-flowered. Invo- 
lucre hemispherical ; scales broadly lanceolate, spreading, 
in a double series. Florets of the ray ligulate. Germen 
compressedly triangular, quite destitute of pappus. Florets 
Bee disk orange. Anthers black. Stigmas short, orange. 
ales of the involucre linear, chaffy. 
fi Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floretof the Disk. 3. Achenium: magni- 
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