96 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I.— GALINSOGA PARVIFLORA. Cav. 
Plate DCCLXV. 
Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMLXXXIII. Fig. 1. 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Nos. 388 and 1900. 
Nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate, stalked, bluntly serrate. Cli- 
nanth conical. Pappus of 8 to 16 ciliated scales. 
In cultivated ground. Plentiful in the neighbourhood of Kew. 
I'.rlicved to have originated from seeds contained in rubbish from 
Kew Gardens, which had been carried away and cast on the 
ueighbouring fields. It not only maintains its ground, however, 
but also extends its area every year. A native of South America. 
[England.] Annual. Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high, with opposite branches, sparingly hairy. 
Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, 3-nerved, acute or slightly acumi- 
nate, with remote scattered hairs on both sides, and ciliated margins. 
Anthodes in regularly-dichotomous cymes, J- to } inch across, on 
slender leafless glandular-pubescent peduncles. Pericline hemi- 
spherical, of unequal scarious greenish phyllaries finely ciliated at 
the margins. Florets of the disk about as long as the phyllaries, 
yellow ; those of the ray few, broadly ligulate, longer than the 
phyllaries, white. Achenes black, broader upwards, compressed, 
striate, terminated by a pappus of white scarious fimbriated scales 
about as long as the florets, and a little shorter than the achene. 
riant green. 
Small-Jloicered GaUnsoga . 
German, Kleinblumige Galinsoge. 
This is a Peruvian plant, cultivated in this country since 179G, as an ornamental 
annnal, though not possessed of much merit. For a long time it has been naturalized 
in the asparagaB-grounds near Kew, Richmond, and Sheen. 
Tribe VII.— IXULE.E. 
Leaves alternate. Anthodes generally heterogamous and ra- 
diant. Florets of the disk tubular, perfect; those of the circum- 
ference generally female and ligulate. Anthers with the lobes pro- 
duced into tails at the base. Style of the perfect flowers with the 
branches compressed, flat above, rounded but not tufted at the 
apex, with the Btigmatic lines marginal, conspicuous. Achenes 
generally cylindrical or tetragonal, with or without ridges. Pappus 
'" plumose hairs, rarely crown-like. 
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