Madia
(the Chilian name of M. sativa). SYN. Biotia. Including Madaria. ORD. Compositae. This genus comprises about eight species of hardy, annual, erect herbs, natives of North-west America and Chili. Flower-heads yellow, sessile or pedunculate at the apices of the branches, solitary, clustered, or loosely paniculate; involucre ovoid or campanulate. Leaves alternate, entire or merely toothed. The species will thrive in any ordinary garden soil. Propagated by seeds, sown in spring.
M. elegans (elegant).* fl.-heads yellow; disk-florets bearded in the limb; receptacle conical, pilose. August. l. linear or lanceolate, mostly entire. Stems diffuse. h. 1 1/2ft. North-west America, 1831. (B. M. 3548; B. R. 1458.) M. sativa (cultivated). fl.-heads yellow. July. l., lower ones opposite, entire; upper ones alternate. h. 1ft. Chili, 1794.
M. viscosa (clammy). fl.-heads yellow; outer involucres ten-leaved. July and August. l. lanceolate, sessile, viscid. h. 1 1/2ft. Chili, 1794. (B. M. 2574.)