PLATE XXII. 
GOODENIA CALENDULACEA. | 
Cape Marygold-leaved Goodenia. . 
CLASS Vi. ORDER L 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
: GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium quadrifidum, fuperum, Empatement. Cup four-cleft, above, and re- 
perfiftens. maining. 
Cornotza monopetala, fupra longitudinaliter Bossom of one leaf, cleft longitudinally on the 
_ fiffa, genitalia exferens; limbo quinquefido, upper fide, expofing the organs of fructifi- 
fecundo. cation; border five-cleft, leaning one way. 
Sramina. Filamenta quinque, receptaculo in- Curves. Five threads fixed into the receptacle. 
Serta, therz lineares. Tips linear. 
Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex. Porntat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple. 
Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. Summit pitcher-fhaped, and fringed. 
. Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, bilocularis, Sgep-vesseL. Capfule oblong, with two cells, 
o _ bivalvis; diffepimento parallelo. and two valves; partition parallel to the 
tee valves. 
Szzps many and rough. 
Semina plura, fcabrida. 
cs SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
os _ Goodenia, foliis obovatis, craflis, {cabridis; Goodenia with inverfely egg-fhaped, thick rough 
= __. floribus axilaribus, czruleis. leaves; flowers fitting clofe to the ftem, 
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si _ REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Flower with all its parts complete. 
2. A Bloffom without the organs of fruétification. 
- 3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud (magnified). 
Tae Goodenias are all natives of New Holland, and received their generic name of Dr. J. E. Smith, 
Prefident of the Linnzean Society; in honour of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, whofe valuable differtation 
on the Britith fpecies of Carex, does him the higheft honour, as a botanift. The {pecies of this gent 
Se (as yet difeovered) are ten, from which we may infer that they are numerous; thofe only yet intro- 
aoe Guced fo: Britain are, the levigata, ovata, and the prefent fpecies; the others are defcribed by 
Prefident, in the fecond volume of the Linnean Tranfaétions. This plant, though not to be ranked é 
. in a handfomeft productions of that country, fo replete with novelty, is yet poffeffed of fuffi- 
a eek, et it a place in our collections ‘of greenhoufe plants, flowering about the month 
: [oi osaeesian ting moft in an airy fituation, and light foil. It is eafily propagated by cuttings i se! és 
oo eS a plant which flowered at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1797; where tt ge 
aia. | eeds, oad @ by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding at Port eee 
Se eer mock iid s in colle@ing feeds, &c. the cabinets and colleétions of our natural oe 
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