not one-third so long as the radiant florets, the apices a 
little recurved. Corollas of the ray ligulate, female tri- 
dentate, broadly linear, the lower tubular portion hairy. 
Germen singularly boat-shaped, curved like a horse-shoe, 
large, green, downy, within having a thickened margin, 
more or less tuberculated on the back. Florets of the 
centre all tubular, small, male, and, consequently, sterile ; 
the mouth five-cleft, the base hairy. Abortive Germen 
cylindrical, downy, green. Receptacle dotted. The heads 
of fruit have a singular appearance : the centre or disk is 
occupied by the closely packed, abortive pistils, and sur- 
rounded by the numerous, large achenia, which constitute 
the circumference, and are cymbiform, with a broad, thick- 
ened margin, singularly incurved, within at the base having 
an elevated lamella, the back furnished with a tuberculated 
ridge: the inner of these achenia are more narrow, and 
have less margin. 
This well-known and truly brilliant ornament of our 
gardens, even of that of the humblest cottager, has, strange 
to say, never found a place in any of our periodical Maga- 
zines. It is too, a very old inhabitant of our flower-borders, 
having been introduced so long ago as 1573, from the 
South of Europe: and is now frequent in the gardens even 
of the peasantry. Linnzus observed, that its flowers usu- 
ally expanded from nine in the morning till three in the 
bg ; but SHakesPEare seems more correct when he 
calls it 
“ The Marygold that goes to bed with the sun, 
And with him rises weeping.” 
_ The flowers, which vary much in intensity of colour, and 
in being more or less double, were formerly, and are still, 
used in some parts of England, to impart an agreeable 
colour and peculiar flavour to soups and broths, and have 
been considered as “ comforters of the heart and spirits :” 
and a distilled water, and a kind of vinegar and a conserve 
have been prepared from them. 
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Fig. 1. Central male Floret. 2. Male ligulate Floret of the Cireum- 
ference. 3. An outer Pericarp of the Head of Fruit :—magnified. 
