Receptacle naked. Pappus none. Empalement many-leaved, nearly equal. The seeds of the disk chiefly membranous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
Calendula, foliis alternis linearibus remote et acute dentatis; caule fruticoso decumbente.
Marygold, with alternate linear remotely and acutely dentated leaves, and a decumbent shrubby stem.
Calendula dentata. Donn’s Hort. Cantab. ed. 3. 163.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2.A floret of the circumference.
3.A floret of the disk.
4.The same laid open and magnified, to show the situation of the chives.
5. The pointal, with the summit detached and magnified
Although this species of Calendula appears to have been introduced to the British gardens so long since as the year 1790, from the Cape of Good Hope, its native country; I do not find it enumerated either in Mr. Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis or Gmelin’s edition of Systema Naturæ; but it will in all probability be taken up in Willdenow’s Species Plantarum, when he arrives at that part of it which is to include the genus Calendula.
It is well known in the gardens by the applicable name of dentata, but is not a common plant,—although, from the beauty and size of its flowers, highly worthy of general cultivation: its branches are weak, yet shrubby; and require support.
It is a green-house plant, and is propagated by cuttings in the usual way. Our drawing was made from the Clapham collection in July last.[Pg 95]