CALEN'DULA PLUVIA'LIS. 
SMALL CAPE MARYGOLD. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGF.NESIA. NECESSARIA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
C.G. Hope. 
18 inches. 
June, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1699. 
No. 280. 
Calendula, it is thought, was deduced from the 
Latin calendse, whence our word calends, the first 
day of every month. This applies to the perpetual 
flowering of the plant, and is appropriate, as regards 
the Calendula officinalis, or common Marygold. 
The Latin Pluvialis, which appertains to rain, is used 
in reference to the influence which rain or dew has 
on the opening and closing of the blossoms of our 
present subject. 
All flowers, we believe, which close in rainy and 
cloudy weather, have the property of closing at 
night. The same object, protection from moisture, 
is attained in each instance. This peculiarity is 
prettily alluded to in the following lines, which we 
copy from Dr. Withering’s Arrangement. 
“ The flower, enamoured of the sun, 
At his departure hangs her head and weeps, 
And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps 
Sad vigils like a cloistered nun. 
Till his reviving ray appears, 
Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.” 
Seed of Calendula pluvialis may be sown in the 
open ground, in April. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 5, 167. 
