DAH'LIA SCAPIG ERA. 
SCAPE-BEARING DAHLTA. 
EXOGENER, oe DICOTYLEDONE. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant a | 
gs ) Artificial divisions 
f°, p to which 
Bed this Plant belongs, 
No. 161. 
GENUS. Danuta. CavaniLLEs. CaPpituLu 
ligulati inei neutrisve, disci tubulosis quinquedentatis. 
cir : 
CALYCIFLORE, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE, 
leads ror sited ANTHER~ ecaudate, appendiculate. Aca#nium oblongo- 
b RBZ i 
vel oligocephali. CaritruLa sie chroma, nempe disco Eien ae purpureo, 
roseo albo aut flavescente. Dzcanbor~e. Prodromus, v. 5 p. 4! 
SPECIES. mines er Link er Orro. Cavite hisili basi ra- 
sonpifarnible Reed unifloris vel, subtrifloris 
foliis pinnatipartitis, ligulis foemineis fertitibus 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, DanLiaA. FLOWERHEAD radiate, the 
florets of the ray ligulate, female or neuter, those of the disk hermaph- 
rodite, tubular, usually 5-toothed. | INvoLucrE double, the external 
consisting of about five spreading or recurved leaflets, the internal of 
sre m eight to sixteen erect long ya et seta wert 3 in —_ 
membranous at the top, thick 
Ranaretats flat, with abions entire membranous scales. BRANCHE ES 
of the style erect or slightly curved, thick, and bearing hairs outside. 
ANTHERS without tails, but with appendages at the top. AcH®NIUM 
oblong, ovate, compressed at the top, without a pappus but obscurely 
two-horned at the top. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Danuta Scapicera. Roors fasci- 
culate, some of them cylindrical and fibrous, others swelling into oblong 
tubers. Stem short, procumbent or even trailing at the base, dividing 
out immediately into a number of nearly erect branches, nearly smooth 
as well as the whole plant, some of them one or two feet high, bearing 
a single pair of leayes, and two or three flowers, others reduced to a 
one-flowered peduncle. LEAVES opposite, pinnately divided, the com- 
REFERENCE me — thane rae 
1, Style of a floret of the disk. 48 Pope eut oa it the stamina. 4, a floret 
e disk. 2 A gio ar the ra 
