Helianthus Multiflorus Many-flowered Or Perennial Sun-flower

<p><em>Class and Order.</em></p>

<p>Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea.</p>

<p><em>Generic Character.</em></p>

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<p><em>Recept.</em> paleaceum, planum. <em>Pappus</em> 2-phyllus. <em>Cal.</em> imbricatus, subsquarrosus. </p>

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<p><em>Specific Character and Synonyms.</em></p>

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<p>HELIANTHUS <em>multiflorus</em> foliis inferioribus cordatis trinervatis superioribus ovatis. <em>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</em> <em>Murr. p. 781.</em></p>

<p>CHRYSANTHEMUM americanum majus perenne, floris folis foliis et floribus. <em>Moris. Hist. 3. p. 23.</em> </p>

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<p>The Helianthus multiflorus, a native of North-America, is a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, arising usually to the height of five or six feet, and producing a great number of large yellow shewy blossoms, which renders it a suitable plant to ornament the shrubbery or garden of large extent; the variety with double flowers is the one most commonly cultivated, and this we find in almost every garden: it flowers from July to September, and is propagated by parting its roots in autumn.</p>

<p>This is a hardy plant, of ready growth, will bear the smoke of London better than many others; if it continues in the same spot for a great number of years, the blossoms are apt to become single.</p>

<p>The single sort, according to Morison, was introduced before 1699 by Lord Lemster. <em>Ait. Kew.</em></p>