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PASCALIA GLAUCA. 
(glaucous-leaved pascalia.) 
class. order. 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. 
naturat order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Generic Character. — Capitulum many-flowered, rayed ; radial flowers strap-shaped, female, in one row ; 
those of the disk hermaphrodite, tubulose, five-toothed. Invohicrum equal with the disk ; scales 
arranged, for the most part, in two rows, linear, subfoliaceous. Receptacle nearly convex, paleaceous ; 
scales lanceolate. Acheniiim of the ray three-sided, involucral scales not included ; that of the disk 
four-sided, obovate, scales partially included. Pappus crown'shaped, very short, irregularly toothed. 
Specific Character. — P^aw./ an herbaceous perennial, growing from three to four feet in height, branching 
but little. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, entire, covered with little bristles; lower ones 
irregularly toothed. Head of flowers terminal, solitary ; radial flowers large, yellow. 
Yellow flowers are, as we have before been led to remark, far from being 
favourites with the majority of floriculturists. The force of association is so 
powerful, and they have so long been accounted emblems of a not very amiable 
emotion, that a prejudice exists, in the minds of many individuals, against the whole 
of the tribe. 
No such narrow or puerile views ought, however, to influence the cultivator in 
depriving his collection of some of their greatest ornaments ; which, it must be 
confessed, are to be found amongst the plants bearing blossoms of various shades of 
yellow. Nor should a trifling similarity to the oldest and commonest of our border 
decorations be allowed to determine, for a moment, the exclusion of objects in 
themselves both rare and beautiful. 
Unquestionably a first sight of the fine perennial represented on the opposite 
page recalls vividly the universally known annual Sunflower ; and the observer 
feels tempted to pass it by for that resemblance, without even asking its name. 
But, admitting the apparent approximation in the form and colour of the flower to 
that of the plant referred to, there is an elegance of character in the stems and 
