feathered bristlelike hairs, the length of the tube of th 
floret. Receptacle naked, convex, alveolate (honeycombed). 
(Seeds brown, obovately oblong or cuneate, flat, close- 
pressedly furred, with a thick border of the same colour as 
the disk). 
Requires the treatment of a tender annual; that is, to 
be sown in the spring on a hot-bed. The flowers of the ray 
roll themselves close up backwards towards evening, and 
spread again in the morning for several days in succession. 
The blue of the ray is bright and beautiful. 
We have adopted the description given by the framer of 
the genus; which seems to disagree with our own observa- 
tions only in the florets of the ray being termed “ copzosi et 
contigui,” while in our plant they were only 7-8, and scarcely 
to be called contiguous. 
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