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VERNON I A* axilliflora. 

 A.vUlary-Jloiccred I enionia. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA .T.QUALIS. 



Nat. ord. CoMrosiT;C Juss. Tribus VernoniccE Cassini. (Introduction 

 to the natural si/stem of Botany, p. 197.) 

 VERXOXlA.—Suprd, vol. 6.fol. 52-2. 



axilliflora ; caulc fruticoso raninso, foliis ovatis acutis pilosis subtiis 

 toniontosis marp:ine undulatis, capitulis sessilibus subsolitariis axillaribus 

 foliis brevioribus, involucri foliolis membranaceis coloratis ex ovato 

 subellipticis apice obtusis niucronulatis v. ciliatis. 

 axilliflora, Lessing in Linncea, vol. 4. p. 297. 



A beautiful little stove plant, flowering all the year 

 round, and propagated with the greatest facility from cut- 

 tings, which will blossom when only a few inches high. 



jM. Lessing, who is the only Botanist that has described 

 this plant, had seen no wild specimens, and only conjec- 

 tured it to be a native of some part of Brazil. It aj^pears 

 to be very common about Bahia, for we have specimens out 

 of the Horticultural Society's Collections, gathered there 

 by Mr. George Don ; and recently we have received it 



* " So named by Schrebcr, in memory of Mr. William Vernon, Fellow of 

 St. Peter's College, Cambridge, who, towards the end of the seventeenth 

 century, made a voyage to Maryland, in company with Dr. David Kreig, a 

 German physician, of which Botany was the principal object. Their Her- 

 barium, consisting, as is said, of several hundred new plants, came into the 

 possession of Sir Hans Sloanc, and contributed to enrich the Supplement, or 

 third volume of Ray's Historia Plantarum. A North American genus, 

 therefore, is peculiarly proper to commemorate Mr. Vernon ; whose merits 

 as an accurate and industrious English Botanist are, moreover, recorded by 

 Ray in the preface to his Synopsis, edit. 2d. ; and his name often occurs in 

 the Cryptogamic part of that work. We find no further mention of this 

 gentleman ; nor does he appear any where as an author." — Smith in Recs. 



