248 Compostte—T agetes. 
colour from pale yellow and orange to a rich orange-brown, 
and striped or bordered, A native of Mexico. 
2. 1. erécts (fig. 136). African Marigold.This species 
has not varied to the same extent, not having developed the 
rich velvety brown colour so 
prominent in some varieties of 
the preceding. The lemon and 
orange-coloured double varieties 
are very showy, and there is a 
dwarf race. This is ulso a native 
of Mexico. 
3. T. tenwifolia.An erect 
slightly branched annual with 
pinnatisect serrate leaves. Pe- 
duneles 1-headed, naked. Pappus. 
of five scales, four of which are 
united, and the fifth free and 
longer. Flowers yellow. Mexico. 
4. T, siqnata—A species of 
more recent introduction, re- 
sembling 7. pdtula, and superior 
in some of its very dwarf varieties, 
but differing in the pappus, which 
is composed of five truncate 
scales. The flower-heads are 
; 1 smaller but very abundant, and 
| produced in uninterrupted suc- 
cession till late in Autumn. 
Mexico. 
5. T. licila,.— A very distinct free blooming perennial 
species, though it is usually treated as an annual. Leaves 
simple, oblong-lanceolate, coarsely serrated. Flower-heads 
corymbose, about 9 lines in diameter, of a rich yellow. This 
species has the aspect of a Cruciferous plant, from the number 
of the ray-florets being usually four and broad, whilst the 
disk-florets are few and small, having the appearance of stamens 
at a little distance. Peru. 
Vig. 136. Tagetes erecta, (4 nat. size.) 
24, GAILLARDIA. 
Handsome annual or perennial North American herbs. Leaves 
usually simple, entire, toothed, or pinnatifid. Flower-heads on 
long naked peduncles. Receptacle furnished with filiform 
