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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
GENUS III. 
KAULFUSSIA, Nees. THE KAULFUSSIA. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Character. —Flowers of the ray ligulate, female; those 
of the disk hermaphrodite, tubular. Receptacle honeycombed. In- 
volucral scales in two series ; those of the outer series flat, and those 
of the inner series keeled. Fruit ohovate, compressed; those of the 
ray without any pappus; the pappus of the fruit of the disk composed 
of one series of capillary, plumose bristles. 
KAULFUSSIA AMELLOIDES, Nees. THE AMELLUS-LIKE KAULFUSSIA. 
Synonymes. —Cbarieis heterophylla var. Dec. ; C. Neesii, Cass. Specific Character Lower leaves opposite, the rest alternate ; 
Engravings.— Bot. Mag. t. 5177 ; Bot. Reg. t. 409 ; and our fig. oblong and lanceolate; 3-curved at the base. Peduncles terminal and 
3, in Plate 31. I leafless; heads of flowers at first yellowish, then blue. 
Description, &c. —This very beautiful little plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from which 
country it was introduced in 1820, and was first raised by Mr. Anderson in the Botanic Garden, Chelsea. It 
was formerly considered as only half-hardy, and was raised on a hot bed; but it is now found to succeed quite 
well if sown in the open border in April. It affords a powerful contrast to the Ageratum both in the development 
and duration of its flowers ; and as that plant is remarkably slow in both, so is this remarkably quick. Plants 
of the Kaulfussia , the seeds of which were sown in April, will come into flower in May, or the beginning of 
June ; and by the latter end of that month all their petals will be curled up, and their seeds beginning to ripen. 
In nurseries, the seeds are generally gathered early in July, and the plants removed. It is quite a dwarf plant, 
and beds of it appear one mass of flowers. The seeds are generally good and come up quickly, and the plants 
will bear transplanting if too thick ; though this is rarely the case, as, from their small size, they do not look well 
unless near together. The flower heads, when they first appear, are yellowish ; they then become of a pale blue, 
but before they curl up, they turn of a beautiful, rich, dark, mazarine blue, or almost purple. 
TRIBE SENECION IDEiE, Dec. 
In this tribe arc included more than three-fourths of all the ornamental annual Composite. 
GENUS IY. 
DRACOPIS, Cass. THE DRACOPIS, OR STEM-CLASPING RUDBECKIA. 
. Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Generic Character. —Flowers of the ray, ligulate, neuter ; those inner series composed of small adpressed scales. Fruit cylindrical, 
of the disk hermaphrodite and tubular. Involucral scales in two attenuated at the base; pappus crown-formed, quite entire, 
series ; outer series composed of 6ix or eight linear spreading scales ; 
DRACOPIS AMPLEXICAULIS, Cass. THE STEM-CLASPING DRACOPIS. 
Synonymes. —Rudbeckia amplexicaulis, Vaid. ; R. amplexifolia, Specific Character. —Plant glabrous, branched ; stem-leaves alter- 
Jacq. ; R. perfoliata, Cav. nate, cordate, stem-clasping, entire. Head terminal, solitary. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3716 ; and our fig. 6 in Plate 32. 
Description, &c.—T his plant, though introduced from Louisiana so long ago as 1793, appears to have been 
lost to our gardens till about 1835, when it was re-introduced by Drummond from New Orleans. There are two 
kinds ; one with strongly-serrated leaves, figured by Jacquin, and the other the kind we have figured, with entire 
leaves and smaller flowers. The seeds, which may be had at Charlwood’s, and other seed-shops, should be sown 
in March or April, and the stems of the plants tied up before they come into flower. 
