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safford: notbs on dahlia 



now called "Duplex," with leaves like those of Dahlia variabilis, 

 were poorly drawn (see fig. i), but a third figure, reproduced in 

 the accompanying illustration (fig. 2) was that of a Dahlia with 



Fig. 2. — Peony-flowered Dahlia, called Acocoxochitl 

 by the Aztecs. After Hernandez (1575). 



flowers of the "peony type" and with leaves resembling those of 

 Dahlia glabrata. This figure was accompanied in the Roman 

 edition of Hernandez's work by a very brief and inadequate 

 description. In the Madrid edition- it is described under the 



2 Vol. I, p. 14, cap. 24. 



