NAT. ORDER. 
CompositcB. 
RHODANTHE MANGLESII. MANGLE'S RHODANTHE 
Class XIX. Sygenesia. Order I. Polygamia iEauALis. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, five-cleft, stiff and bony. Pa'pus, covered with 
fine hairs. Receptacle, marked with irregular dots. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, oblong, somewhat pointed, obtuse, and cordate. 
Branches, wavy or snake-like, and very slender. 
The root \s annual^; the s^em-(like the whole plant) is glabrous, 
rounded, slightly glaucous, branched in a dichotomous manner, with 
a leaf at the setting on of the branches ; the branches are wavy, 
slender, and forming a sort of a panicle upwards ; the peduncles are 
single-flowered, and more or less drooping; the leaves are oblong- 
obtuse, cordate, araphlexicaul at the base, dark green above, and 
paler beneath ; involucre turbinate, much tapering at the base, formed 
below of numerous laxy, imbricated, purplish-gray, membranaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate scales, gradually as they proceed upwards, larger 
and longer, and of a fair rose color, toothed at the apex ; the upper 
forming a beautiful concave ray around the disk, which consists of 
numerous yellow, tubular florets ; the receptacle is naked ; hairs ol 
the pajipus, feathery. 
This is a beautiful hardy annual ; it is considerably cultivated in 
the south part of Germany, where it bears its brilliant rose-colored 
and yellow blossoms in the early part of the summer months. " In 
July," Prof. Lindley observes, "it becomes shabby, and by the begin- 
ning of August, its seed is ripe, and its life departed." This plant is 
said to be a native of Holland 
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