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Tagetes erecta, Linn. African Marigold. Fig. 3767. A hardy annual growing about 2 ft. high, erect, branched: lvs. pinnately divided, segms. lanceolate-serrate: fls. 2-4 times as large as in T. patula and of one solid color, the typical color, according to DeCandolle, being a lemon-yellow. Mex.—The rays are sometimes rather 2-lipped and in one of the garden forms they are quilled. The color ranges from a light sulfur-yellow to a deep orange, many of the light yellow shades being rare amongst fl. colors. This is the common marigold of old gardens in Amer. Foliage very strong-scented.
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