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* COSMUS scabfosSides. 

 Scabious-like Cosmus. 



SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. Asterace^: § Senecionide^:. 

 COSMUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 23. fol. 2007. 



C. scabiosoides ,- caule pubescente, foliis pinnati-partitis subtus hispidulis, lobis 

 bijugis lanceolato-oblongis acutis basi cuneatis apice subserratis, terminali 

 majore, involucri squamis exterioribus lanceolatis acutis brevioribus, acbeniis 

 (bi-) triaristatis. DC. prodr. 5. 607. 



C. scabiosoides. Humb. Bonpl. fy Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 4. 242. 



Originally found by Humboldt and Bonpland on the 

 western slope of the mountains of Mechoacan, near Pazcuaro, 

 at the elevation of nearly 7000 feet above the sea. It has 

 also been met with near Tlalpuxahua. The seeds from which 

 the plant now represented was raised were imported from 

 Mexico by George Fr. Dickson, Esq. F.H.S., and presented 

 by that gentleman to the Horticultural Society of London, 

 in whose garden the drawing was made last October. 



The genus Cosmus abounds in beautiful species. C. tenui- 

 folius, with large bright rose-coloured flowers, has already 

 been figured in this work ; others with bright yellow, pink, 

 or rich purple blossoms, still unknown in gardens, may be 

 soon expected to appear from among the many valuable 

 collections of Mexican seeds now in course of importation to 

 this country. They are more particularly deserving of atten- 

 tion because they will probably become double like the 

 Dahlia. 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 23. fol. 2007. 



