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florets being much more numerous, and each blotched at the base with a rich purplish-brown so as to form a ring 
inside the flower round the disk. "When the florets of the ray fall, the same peculiarity is observable in the 
florets of the disk as was described in the preceding species, excepting that they are much less dry. The species 
is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced about 1835. Its seeds are now common in the 
seed-shops, and they should be sown in February or March, covering them at night, if the weather should be 
cold, with a flower-pot or glass, when they will come into flower in May. Mr. Hopgood, of the Bayswater 
nursery, has some plants of this species still beautifully in flower this day, October 7th; though the specimen 
figured in our plate was gathered from one of the same plants early in May. 
GENUS XVII. 
OXYURA, Dec. THE OXYURA. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Character. —Head of many flowers. Flowers of the ray 
ligulate, female. Flowers of the disk tubular, hermaphrodite, many of 
the central ones abortive. Involucral scales in one series, ciliated at 
the base, convolute, clasping the fruit of the rays ; each terminated by a 
leafy appendage. Receptacle furnished with membranous palese. 
Fruit somewhat compressed, obovate, glabrous. 
OXYURA CHRYSANTIIEMOIDES, Dec. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM-LIKE OXYURA. 
Engravings. —Bot. Reg. t. 1850 ; Botanist, No. 128; and our fig. 7, in Plate 31. 
Specific Character. —Stem glabrous. Leaves alternate, ciliated, pinnatifid. Bracteas few, ciliated. 
Description, &c. —This beautiful little plant is one of those which we owe to the exertions of poor Douglas, 
it having been sent home by him from California in 1835. It is quite hardy, and should be sown in March or 
April, when it will come into flower early in June. It does not, however, last long; and the seeds are generally 
ripe in July or August. 
GENUS XVIII. 
MADIA, Mol THE MADIA. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Character. —Flowers of the ray ligulate, female, and 
sometimes tubular; those of the disk tubular and hermaphrodite. 
Involucrum nearly globose, of one series of scales ; scales keeled on 
the back, involving the achenite of the ray. Receptacle flat, bearing 
one or two series of pales between the ray and the disk. Fruit com¬ 
pressed, glabrous, 4 or 5-angled. 
MADIA SATIVA, Mol. THE CULTIVATED MADIA. 
Synonymes. —M. viscosa, Cav. ; M. mellosa, Jacrj. lower leaves opposite; upper ones alternate, oblong, entire, stem 
Engraving. —Bot. Mag. t. 2574. clasping. Heads on short petioles, disposed in racemes. Seeds oily. 
Specific Character. —Plant covered with glandular clammy hairs; 
Description, &c. —The plant is of no beauty ; but we notice it on account of its having been lately cultivated 
on a large scale both in England and Germany, for the purpose of crushing the seeds for oil. In Germany, it 
lias been cultivated near Stuttgart, and in England, in Norfolk, by Mr. Taylor ; in both instances, the experiment 
has been attended with success. The plant is a native of Chili, whence it was introduced in 1794 by Archibald 
Menzies, Esq. In its native country this plant is celebrated for producing oil, and indeed the name of Madia is 
