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CALENDULA CHRYSANTHEMIFOLIA. 



given by Link. Of the other species, one belongs to America, three to Europe, 

 and seventeen to Africa, of which the greater part are natives of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



It is a green-house plant of the easiest culture, as it will succeed in almost 

 any soil. Being rather inclined to grow tall and straggling, it ought to be 

 repeatedly topped when young. To ensure its flowering well it should have 

 plenty of pot room ; or it may be planted out in the open ground in summer, 

 where its large star-like blossoms will make a conspicuous appearance in the 

 flower-border. 



It is readily propagated early in the spring by cuttings of the young wood 

 struck in sand ; but they are rather difficult to strike at any other season, which 

 may account for the plant being met with but in few collections. 



Our drawing was made from a fine plant in the collection of the Birmingham 

 Botanical and Horticultural Society. 



Fig. 1, perpendicular section of a flower, the florets of the disc and ray being 

 removed to show (a) the many-leaved involucrum, (b) the receptacle ; 2, floret 

 of the ray with the germ and reflexed stigmas. 



