9G ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES I.— GALINSOGA PARVIPLORA. Cav. 



Plate DCCLXV. 



Eeich. Tc. F). Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXXXIII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Nos. 388 and 1900. 



Nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate, stalked, bluntly serrate. Cli- 

 nanth conical. Pappus of 8 to IG ciliated scales. 



In cultivated ground. Plentiful in the neighbourhood of Kew. 

 Believed to have originated from seeds contained in rubbish from 

 Kew Gardens, which had been carried away and cast on the 

 neighbouring fields. It not only maintains its ground, however, 

 but also extends its area every year. A native of South America. 



[England.] Annual. Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, with opposite branches, sparingly hairy. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, 3-nervcd, acute or slightly acumi- 

 nate, with remote scattered hairs on both sides, and ciliated margins. 

 Anthodes in regularly-dichotomous cymes, i^ to ^ inch across, on 

 slender leafless glandular-pubescent peduncles. Pericline hemi- 

 spherical, of unequal scarious greenish phyllaries finely ciliated at 

 the margins. Florets of the disk about as long as the phyllaries, 

 yellow ; those of the ray few, broadly ligulate, longer than the 

 phyllaries, white. Achenes black, broader upwards, comprcssrd, 

 striate, terminated by a pappus of white scarious fimbriated scales 

 about as long as the florets, and a little shorter than the achcne. 

 Plant green. 



Small-jloicered GaUnsoga. 



German, Kleinhhimige Galinsoge. 



This is a Peruvian plant, cultivated in this country since 179G, a.s an ornanirntal 

 annual, though not possessed of much mei-it. For a long time it has been natuiaiizoil 

 in the asparagus-grounds near Kew, Richmond, and Sheen. 



Tribe VII.— IXULE^. 



Leaves alternate. Anthodes generally heterogamous and ra- 

 diant. Plorcts of the disk tubular, perfect ; those of the circum- 

 ference generally female and ligulate. Anthers with the lobes pro- 

 duced into {ails at the base. Style of the perfect flowers with the 

 branches compressed, flat above, rounded but not tufted at the 

 apex, with the stigmatic lines marginal, conspicuous. Achenes 

 generally cylindrical or tetragonal, with or without ridges. Pappus 

 of plumose hairs, rarely crown-like. 



