MARIGOLD. 51 
previous to a.p. 1500. The dedication of the flower to 
Queen Mary would naturally occur to the adherents of her 
cause, and hence it is not surprising to find in a ballad of 
her time, as quoted in “ Notes and Queries” (8. 5, xii. 418), 
such lines as the following :— 
“To Mary our queen, that flower so sweet, 
This marigold I do apply ; 
For that name doth seme so meet 
And property in each party. 
For her enduring patiently 
The storms of such as list to scold 
At her doings, without cause why, 
Loath to sce spring this marigold.” 
The flowers known as marigolds represent two distinct 
genera of composites. The common weedy marigold 
figured at page 61 is Calendula officinalis ; the generic 
name implying that it keeps pace with the calendar—that 
is to say, it flowers every day throughout the year, which 
is very nearly true. The great African marigold is 
Tugetes erecta ; it 1s not African, but Mexican, as are also 
the more refined French marigold, Zuyetes patula, and the 
fine-leaved and the shining-leaved kinds, 7’ teuwzfolia and 
T. lucida, The genus Tagetes is named in honour of an 
obscure Etruscan hero of doubtful pedigree. It seems that 
Jupiter had a son named Genius, and this Genius had a 
son named Tages, who taught the KEtruscans the art of 
divination. In the fifteenth book of Ovid’s “ Metamor- 
phoses”? he is thus referred to in connection with the 
transformation of Egeria :— 
“The nymphs and Virbius like amazement fll’d, 
As seized the swains who Tyrrhene furrows till’d, 
When heaving up, a clod was seen to roll, 
Untouch’d, self-mov’d, and big with human soul. 
