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yellow disk and a white ray, while those of Sogalgina are rather large, and both disk and ray of a bright yellow. 
The name of Galinsogea was given to the original genus in honour of Dr. Martin de Galinsoga, first Physician to 
the Queen of Spain, and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Madrid, and we have retained it as the 
English name, as it is that by which the plant is known in the seed-shops and nurseries. It was introduced in 
1797 by the Marchioness of Bute, and having been lost, it was re-introduced from Madrid by Lady Holland, 
about 1812. It is of very easy cultivation. The seeds, which may be bought in any seed-shop, should be sown 
in March or April, and the plants will need no other culture, except thinning out if the seed was sown too 
thickly. 
GENUS XVI. 
SPHENOGYNE, Ii. Br. THE SPHENOGYNE. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA NECESSARIA. 
Generic Character. —Head of many flowers. Flowers of tlie ray | of many series of imbricated scales. Anthers terminated by a heart- 
ligulate, neuter. Flowers of the disk tubular hermaphrodite. Recep- shaped appendage. Fruit nearly cylindrical, surrounded by hairs, 
tacle paleaceous, paleae clasping the flowers. Involucrum campanulate | Pappus paleaceous. 
1.—SPHENOGYNE ANTHEMOIDES, II. Br. THE CHAMOMILE-LIKE SPHENOGYNE. 
Synonymes. —Arctotis anthemoides, I.inn.; A. pinnata et A. 
cernua, Thun. ; A. paradoxa, Ait .; Ursiuia anthemoides, Poir. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 544; and our Jig. 5, in Plate 31, under 
the name of Arctotis anthemoides. 
Specific Character —Plant glabrous. Leaves irregularly bipinnate, 
with filiform segments. Pedicels elongated, naked. Palese of the 
pappus truncate. Ray flowers few. 
Description, &c. —This flower is remarkable for being of a dark purple on the under side, and a bright 
yellow inside. The buds hang down modestly, but when the flowers expand, they hold themselves erect as 
though proud of their full vigour and beauty. When the plants decay the flower droops, till the seeds become 
ripe, when it again raises itself, and the crown of the seed expanding at the same time, it seems to have unfolded 
another flower, which has a corolla of five white petals and a brown star in the centre. This singular appearance 
is occasioned by the florets of the disk remaining attached to the seed, after they have withered and become 
whitish, and the florets of the ray have fallen. The stem branches very much at the base, and thus each plant 
bears a great many flowers. The leaves greatly resemble those of the Chamomile, and the whole plant has the 
same odour as that herb; whence the name of Anthemoides or Chamomile-like. The name of Sphenogyne is 
compounded from Sphenos , a wedge, and gyenos, female, and alludes to the wedge-shaped stigmas. The species 
in question is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced in 1774. The seeds are common in the 
seed-shops, and they only require sowing in March or April to produce abundance of flowers from June till 
September or October. The plant is of low growth, seldom exceeding six inches ; and from this circumstance 
and the great number of flowers which it produces from each root, it is admirably adapted for forming a mass of 
yellow, in a flower-garden the beds of which make a geometrical figure. There were some beds of it in the 
nursery of Forrest and Black at Kensington, in the summer of 1839, which produced a splendid effect. 
2.—SPHENOGYNE SPECIOSA, Hort. 
Synonyme. — S. versicolor, Dec. 
Engravings. —Flor. Cab. vol. 2, p. 131 ; and our Jig. 10, in 
Plate 31. 
THE BEAUTIFUL SPHENOGYNE. 
Specific Character. —Plant glabrous. Leaves pinnatifid, with 
linear segments. Pedicels elongated, Dearly naked. Ray flowers 
numerous. 
Description, &c. —This beautiful flower is easily distinguished from the preceding species, by the ray 
