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passage from the Botanical RegUter, relating to this flower, may be amusing to such of my readers aa liave a 
taste for botany, as it applies more or less to all the species ofithe genus. 
" On a bright warm day, under the shelter of a greenhouse, the stigmas of the various florets may be 
perceived to emerge from within the tube of the concealed anthers, carrying up the pollen parted with to them 
by those organs, and which is seen to adhere in a thick coat of yellow powder, to afford it from this new position 
the means of an access necessary to the otherwise unprovided stigmaa of the surrounding ray, a task to which 
the proper organ is evidently here incompetent. By and by the same are seen to retreat gradually within the 
cavity of the now empty anthers. When recently emerged and charged with pollen, they bend and incline 
themselves with a lively motion on the slightest touch, but always in the direction whence the impulse came ; 
and in so doing necessarily part with a portion of the pollen that covers them. And as the honeyed liquid which 
attracts the insect to the flower is deposited in the ray that surrounds the disk, the impulse will be the more 
certainly given by that means, probably the only one, from the side towards which it is requisite that the pollen 
should be carried. The style, by the extension and contraction of which the stigma is made to advance and 
withdraw, seems to consist of a substance resembling elastic gum (caoutchouc), and may be repeatedly drawn 
out to a considerable extent, like that contracting to its foriper dimepsions when left to itself, wi^th the same 
elastic force." 
The species is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced in 1710. 
A. AUREOLA, Lin. 
Closely resembles the above species, excepting the colour of its flowers, which are of a brilliant reddish orange. 
4.— ARCTOTIS TRICOLOR, Jacq. THE THREE-COLOURED ARCTOTIS. 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg. t. 131 ; and oxiv fig. 1, in Plate 55. j linear, sometimes club-sbaped ; covered with white tomentum, with 
SrEciFic CHARACTca.— Stemless. Leaves lyrate, spreading; upper j a r«(>urv«d mucco at the tip. 
surface slightly hairy, lower one tomentose. Scales of the involucre | 
Description, &c. — This is a dwarf species, remarkable for the beauty of its flowers (which are white, and 
dark purple on the under side,) and for its leaves, the veins of which are strongly marked on both sides, and 
whitish. The disk of the flower is Of a deep shining blackish brown. The plant has no stem, but the peduncles 
of the flowers are from six inches to a foot high. It is a native of the Cape, whence it was introduced in 1794. 
It should be planted in a mixture of peat and loam, and it is easily propagated by suckers. It flowers from 
May to July. 
6.— ARCTOTIS SPECIOSA, Willd. THE SNOWY ARCTOTIS. 
Synonyhe A breviscapa, Thunb. 
Engravings.— Bot. Mag. t. 2182 ; and our ^^. 3, in Plate 55. 
Specific Character. — Stemless. Leaves lyrately pinnatifid ; ca- 
Description, &c — This species appears to be a biennial, or at most not lasting longer than three years. It 
requires scarcely any protection during winter. It is propagated by seeds, which it ripens freely. It is supposed 
to be a native of the Cape, but the year of its introduction is not known, and some think it a seedling variety of 
the A. acaulis. It will grow in almost any soil and situation. 
nescent on the lower surface, three-nerved. Scape cylindrical, striated. 
Scales of the iavolutre'linsir, recurved. 
