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safford: cosmos sulphureus 



1918, Dr. Conzatti says that, although Hernandez declares the 

 xochipalU to be an herb well known to everybody, no one could 

 be found who knew it: even the oldest natives in the vicinity of 



Fig. 1 XochipalU (Cosmos sulphureus Cavanilles), the "flowor-paint" of thf 

 Aztecs, as figured by Hei'iiandez in 1576 and published in 1651. 



Oaxaca were ignorant of such a plant. Since Hernandez de- 

 scribed it as having ''flowers resembUng the cempoalxochitl 

 {Tageies erecta) but smaller," Dr. Conzatti was inclined to refer 

 it to the smaller cempoalxochitl, Tagetes multiseta, a dried speci- 



