Dysodia
from dusodes, ill-smelling; in allusion to the unpleasant odour of some of the species). ORD. Compositae. A genus of about ten species of erect or diffuse, glabrous or pubescent herbs, natives of Mexico and Central America. Flower-heads heterogamous, radiate; ray-florets female; disk fertile; involucre cylindrical, campanulate, or almost hemispherical, composed of one series of sub-equal, rigidly membranaceous bracts. Leaves opposite or alternate, more or less pinnatifid. The species thrive in well-drained loamy soil, in greenhouse temperature. Readily propagated by seeds, sown in spring; by division of the roots; or by cuttings.
D. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl.-heads rich deep orange. l. opposite, ovate, acuminate, inciso-serrate. h. 1ft. to 2ft. A handsome perennial. SYNS. Clomenocoma montana, Comaclinium aurantiacum. (B. M. 5310.)
D. pubescens (pubescent). The correct name of the plant described in this work as Boebera incana.
E. In composition, this letter signifies without; thus, ebracteate, without bracts.