NAT. ORDER. 



CompositcB. 



RHODANTHE MANGLESII. MANGLE'S RHODANTHE 



Class XIX. Sygenesia. Order I. Polygamia jEqualis. 

 Gen. Char. Calyx, five-cleft, stilF and bony. Papus, covered with 

 tine hairs. Receptacle, marked with irregular dots. 



Spe. Char. Leaves, oblong, somewhat pointed, obtuse, and cordate. 

 Brandies, wavy or snake-like, and very slender. 



The root is annual ; the s^fim (like the whole plant) is glabrous, 

 rounded, slightly glaucous, branched in a dicliotomous manner, with 

 a leaf at the setting on of the branches ; the branches are wavy, 

 slender, and forming a sort of a panicle upwards ; the peduncles are 

 single-flowered, and more or less drooping ; the leaves are oblong- 

 obtuse, cordate, amphlexicaul at the base, dark green above, and 

 paler beneath ; involucre turbinate, much tapering at the ba.se, formed 

 below of numerous laxy, imbricated, purplish-gray, membranaceous, 

 ovate-lanceolate scales, gradually as they proceed upwards, larger 

 and longer, and of a fair rose color, toothed at the apex ; the upper 

 forming a beautiful concave ray around the disk, which consists of 

 numerous yellow, tubular florets ; the receptacle is naked ; hairs ol 

 the pajipus, feathery. 



This is a beautiful hardy annual ; it is considerably cultivated in 

 the south part of Germany, where it bears its brilliant ro.se-colored 

 and yellow blossoms in the early part of the summer months. " In 

 July," Prof Lindley observes, "it becomes shabby, and by the begin- 

 ning of August, its .seed is ripe, and its life departed." This plant is 

 said to be a native of Holland 



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