34. 
ARCTOTIS aspera. 
Rough-leaved Arctotis. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. 
ARCTOTIS. Supra fol. 32. ss 
A. aspera, fruticosa; foliis indentatis v. profundé pinnatifidis, supra 
subarachnoideis, asperits hirsutitisque villosis; appendiculis squama- 
rum extimarum calycis revolutis, subulatis, hirsutis. 
Arctotis aspera («). Lin. sp. pl. 2. 1807. Hort. Kew. 3. 273. ed. 2. 5. 
173. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2356. ; ' 
A. arborescens, Jacq. hort. schoenb. 2. 23.t.1713 ( exhibens frustrum 
caulis plant@ senescentis cum ramo inferiore Horifero, foliis macrescen- 
tibus profunde pinnatifidis.) Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2357. reac 
A. foliis pinnato-laciniatis crispis caule ramoso fruticoso. Mill. dict. ed. 
7.7. 8. : 
z\nemonospermos africana; fol. cardui benedicti, florum radiis intis albis. 
Comm. hort. 2,45, t. 23.7, : 
Planta tota ex villis densis asperiusculis pubi subarachnoidee interspersis 
hirsuta. Folia lyrato-spathulata, v. indentata, v. sinuata, »v. profiinde pinna- 
tifida, supra wiridi-cana, subtis candicantia. ° Pedunculi subscapiforines, 
hirsuti, sulcatt, modo foliolis subbinis vagis remote stipat?. Pollen luteum. 
Stylus chloroleucus. Catera omnia, preter colorem & que supra in charactere’ 
specifico distinximus, Sere ARcTOTIDIS aureole fol. super. 82, Flos tamen 
minor calyxque angustior. 
It is not always an easy task to recognise the species of 
this family, owing to the variation in their foliage, especi- 
ally when viewed under the different aspects imparted by 
age or luxuriance of growth ; a circumstance that may have 
‘been the cause why the present has not been known b 
Jacquin as the aspera of Linneus, but been published by 
that botanist under a newname. The figure he has given 
is of a specimen of a fragment of the stem, to which only 
a lower branch is attached; in this the leaves are all’ deeply 
innatifid with a narrow disk, as is usual, as far as we hav 
seen, in all branches of old plants of this species. . 
We have been amused by observing the newly expanded 
flowers of this and aureola, on a bright warm day, under 
the shelter of a greenhouse; when the stigmas of the barren 
florets may be perceived to emerge from within the tube of 
the concealed anthers, carrying up the pollen parted 
With to them by those organs, and which is seen to adhere 
