Viguiera
(named after Alexander Viguier, a bookseller, of Montpellier, who wrote a work on Poppies, in 1814). ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about sixty species of greenhouse or half-hardy, erect, branched, annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, inhabiting the warmer parts of America. Flower-heads mediocre, rarely large, pedunculate at the tips of the branches, heterogamous; involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical, the bracts in three or more series; receptacle convex, conical, or at length oblong, paleaceous; achenes often more or less pilose. Lower leaves (rarely all) opposite; upper ones usually alternate. Only one species calls for mention here. For culture, see Helianthus.
V. linearis (linear-leaved). fl.-heads yellow; involucral scales oblong, leafy-appendiculate at apex. September, l. sessile, alternate, rarely opposite, linear, entire, one-nerved, revolute-margined, hispid-scabrous on the nerves. Stems erect, branched, scabrid. h. 2ft. Mexico, 1823. Half-hardy perennial. SYN. Helianthus linearis (B. R. 523).
V. rigida (rigid). A synonym of Helianthus rigidus.