This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
A well-known annual plant, bearing a large yellow flower, a native of France and the southern parts of Europe. The French marigold and the African marigold, both Mexican species, have brilliant flowers, and form beautiful borders in flower-gardens. The well-known ice-plants are fig-marigolds.
 
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