natural Family of Plants called Composite. 
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Tridax 
was first established by Linneus, in Hortus Cliffortianus, from 
a specimen found at Vera Cruz by Houston, and sent to Clif¬ 
ford by Miller. As Linneus had no specimen in his own collec¬ 
tion, that in Clifford’s Herbarium, nowin the possession of Sir 
Joseph Banks, is the only authority for the genus; and on ex¬ 
amining this specimen I find the pappus to be not setaceous, as 
Linneus has described it, but distinctly plumose. There is, there¬ 
fore, no difference whatever between Tridax and Balbisia of Will- 
denow; and on comparing Tridax procumbens with Balbisia elon- 
gata , I cannot satisfy myself that they are even specifically di¬ 
stinct. 
Angianthus. 
Angiantlius tomentosus of Wendland’s Collectio Plantarum, 
(vol. ii. p.32. tab. 48.) published in 1809, is evidently thesame plant 
as my Cassinia aurea , described in the fifth volume of the second 
edition of Hortus Kewensis, which did not appear till 1813. 
Wendland neither mentions the native country of his Angianthus , 
nor from whence he received it. He must, no doubt, however, 
have obtained it from Kew Garden, where it was introduced and 
flowered from seeds which I collected in 1802, in the island of 
St. Francis, on the South coast of New Holland. 
Meyer a. 
This genus, described by Schreber in his edition of the Genera 
Plantarum, is not adopted by Willdenow. Swartz, however, in his 
Flora India? Occidentalis, has referred to it, and I have no doubt 
correctly, Eclipta sessilis of his Prodromus. On comparing this 
species of Meyera with a plant in Sir Joseph Banks’s Herbarium* 
collected in Peru by Dombey, and which exactly agrees with 
Sobreya 
