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and which is called ofow« by Diofcorides. The word is 
derived from ofovn, a linen cloth, or napkin, from the external 
downy or cottony clothing of fome of the ae shea 
Linn. Gen. 449. Schreb. 585. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3.237 
Mart. Mill. Did. v. 3. . Hort. Kew, ed. 1. v. 3. 276. 
Juff. oe ue yas Dia. v. 4.664. Illuftr. t. 714. 
— ; Vaill. Mem, Par. ioe 
é 
longer than “the calyx, _threetoothe, reflexed, 
i ; 
anged, permanent calyx 
female ores folitary, oblong, Bees orcrowned. Recept. 
naked, dot 
Obf. In eine {pecies the feeds are crowned with down; 
fome the calyx is divided beyond the middle ; in others 
it is only aooued but the fame fhape or figure is obfervable 
ina 
EM. Ch. Receptacle naked. Down generally none. Calyx 
of one leaf, divided, nearly cylindrical. 
Obf. When this gen nus was a aga ae by = 
are now 
or pinnate leaves ; the pti fach as have their leaves un- 
divided, and toothed or entir 
* Leaves cut or pinnate. 
O. nti Wormwood-leaved African Ragwort. Linn 
Sp. Pl. 1309. Curt. Mag. t. 306. (O. foliis pinnati- 
laciniis linearibus parallelis; Mill. Dig. t 
n May and June, and was introduced into the gardens by 
Mr. Philip Miller in 1731. Stem fhrubby, two or three 
feet high, much branched, covered witha hoary down. 
Leaves aohite with down, cut into many narrow fegments, 
almoft to the mid-rib; thefe fegments are oe and pa- 
soe having two or three teeth at their tips. . Flowers 
n long, axillary ftalks, towards the eeenee of the 
bance of ayellowcolour. Seeds purple. Linneus ob- 
ferves that the whole plant is often uae, and that the 
ftem is {carred. 
Pinnated African oe Linn. Suppl. 
. Willd.n.8. Sims in Bot. Ma 68.—Leaves 
pinnatifid ; the fegments lanceolate, oa Becute nt.—A 
Cape of Good Hope, flowering with us in 
May. This plant was confidered by Linnzus, in his Species 
Plantarum, asa variety of dulbofa, from which however it 
was feparated, by Thunberg’s advice, in the ee 
of his fon.—Root tuberous. Stem waved, almoft proftrate, 
flender. Lower eaves pinnated ; upper undivided, obovate, 
11 
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axillary ftalks, Ba 
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eal all of eae as core Flowers terminal, “yellow. 
is remarked, in the Botanical Magazine, that this fpecies 
is “6a very Saas manner of fleeping, th petals being 
neatly rolled back every evening from the apex to the 
ale, remain in this ftate dil morning, when they again 
ay 
ite 
Fennel leaved =ideaia Ragwort. 
acq. Hort. Sc hoe 
Linn. 
rev. 2. 62. t. oa (Ja- 
cohed eaeree of the 
February. Stem fhr 
three feet high, branched, darkifh brown, refinous. Leaves 
numerous, much fpreading, pinnate; their feements lanceo- 
late, graffy, or fennel-like. Flowers folitary, terminal, 
rae yellow, large, and handfome. The whole plant ie 
a fmell hke turpentine. 
O. abrotanifolia. Southernwood-leaved African Ragwort 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 1310 obza africana fruticans, foliis 
abrotani minor; Volck. Hort. 229. tab. ad fin 
Leaves pinnate, much divided, linear. Foinks of the ftem 
villofe.—Native of the Cape. It was cultivated by Miller 
in 1759, and flowers with us from Jannaryto March. Stem 
low ne fhr peek branched. Leaves thick, like thofe of 
Sampire, and cut into many narrow fegments. Flowers fo- 
(aay. terminal, on thort ftalks, yellow. 
** Leaves fimple, or undivided. 
Oo. ie ma. Slender fimple-leaved African Ragwort. 
mae ant. 118 Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr, 
2. 61. t. 239.—Leaves thread. fhaped, yh Stem 
ee -Native of the Cape, flowering rch and 
April. —Stems ihrnbby, ere&, Perched four feet in Phe eu 
ara Leaves fcattered, (file lineae acute, entire, flefhy, 
when young, {mooth when old. Flowers folitary, on 
Linnzus well gueffed the genus by 
the habit ; fee Man. 
Willdenow etna twenty-two fpecies under this 
. on of the genus, and thirteen under the firft. Ja 
removed from the for us 0. files aults a tecauin 
ae not oe to ce eecally difting from Cineraria 
NA, in Gardening, contains plants of the fhrub- 
by, esol ee n_ kind, of whieh the fpecies culti- 
removed with balls into feparate pots filled w 
ness placing them in a fheltered fhady Gescon till au- 
tum 
"They fhould be preferved in a good greenhoufe in the 
winter, having as much free air as polhile and in the fum 
mer placed in a fheltered warm fituation. 
e fifth fort may fometimes be preferved in the open 
aon in fuch fituations, 
They 
