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ETHULIA conyzoides. 
Panicled Ethulia. 
Soret : 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA QUALIS. 
Nat. ord. Composirm. Adanson fam. 2. 103. 
CoRYMBIFERE. Jussiew gen. 177. Div. IV. Receptaculunt 
nudum. Semen nudum y. non papposum. Flores flosculosi. 
SYNANTHEREE. Cassini dict. sc. nat. 10. 131. Tribus XX, 
VERNONIEE. Cass. loc. cit. 20.384. Sect. VERNONIEZ-ETHULIER. Glerm, 
sepils turbinatum costato-5-angulare, costd und y. et alterd interdim defici- 
ente. -Cass. loc. cit.15. 488; (ex gall. vers.) ‘ 
ETHULIA. Cor. flosculosa, multiplex, regularis, hermaphrodita. Cal. 
corolla yaldé brevior, irregularis, foliolis inequalibus, subbiseriatis, 
sis, oblongis, herbaceis. ecept. nudum, hemisphzricum.” 
binata, 5-angularia, costis 5 facies totidem glandulis co 
entibus: pappus nullus, sed margo coroniformis apicularis 
cinix elongate. Cass. loc. cit. 487; (ex gallico vers.) 
appres- 
Germina tur- 
nspersas intercipi- 
» Flosculorum \a- 
£. conyzoides, floribus paniculatis. Zinn. (fil.) dec. 1.1. t.. Vahl symb. 
1,69. Willd. sp. pl. 3.1740. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. 4.501. Cassini in: 
dict. sc. nat. 15, 487. 
Kahiria. orskh. descr. 153. 
Herba annua, caule 3-4-pedali, subramoso, tereti, striato, villoso. Fol. 
alterna, 3-4-uncialia latitudine sesquiunciali, ovali-lanceolata, acuminata,: 
subdentata, subvillosa. Flores in summis ramis corymbosi, parvi, hemisphe- 
rici, flosculis rubro-purpureis. _Odorem halat planta Rurm graveolentis 
similem et corpusculis glandulaformibus, quibus prectpue scatent germina, 
manantem. Cass. 1. c.; (ex gallico.) ee 
y 
A scarce annual plant, of about three or four feet in 
height, introduced into our hothouses by M.Thouin in 1776; 
but.we believe long since lost. ‘The sample for: the drawine 
was kindly furnished us by Mr. Barker Webb, who had: 
raised it from seed gathered in the Botanic Garden of 
Count Parolini, at Bassano. 
According to M. Cassini, from whose writings we trans- 
late the generic character and specific description, the spe- 
cies has a wide range, having been observed on the banks 
of the Nile, near Rosetta, as well as in India and Mada- 
gascar. There is a native Egyptian sample deposited by 
Forskil in Mr. Brown’s Herbarium. 
The Rue-like scent exhaled by the plant is supposed to 
proceed from the glandular corpuscles dispersed over the 
whole plant, and very thickly over the germens. 
