tageteæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. taget (es); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Botany: A sub-tribe of Sene cion idem. American herbs, for the most part annual, with pellucid glands, many-flowered heads, the florets of the ray ligulate, feminine; pappus awned, hairy. tăg -ě-tēs, s . [Named after Tages, an Etrurian divinity, the grandson of Jupiter, said to have sprung from the earth in the form of a boy, and to have taught the Etrurians the art of ploughing.] Bot .: The typical genus of Tagetese. Involucre simple, of five bracts, united into a tube, florets of the ray persistent, pappus of five erect bristles. Natives of Mexico, Peru, and Chili. About seventeen species are cultivated in gardens. Tagetes patula is the French Marigold, a native not of France, but of Mexico. It is about a foot and a half high, has yellow, radiate, composite, strongly scented which in perfection in August. It is naturalized in Persia, India, and China, grow. ing on the borders of rice fields, ., at a distance from gardens. Many varieties are cultivated; some have double flowers, variegated with gold and orange-brown. T. erect a is the African Marigold, a native not of Africa, but of Mexico. It is larger than the last, and has double flowers, which are strongly scented. In India the flowers of the African Marigold are sold in the bazaars, and worn by women in their hair. A yellow domestic dye is said to be extracted from it by the poorer cla es in India. tăgged, a . [Eng.tag; ed.] Having a tag or tags. "Viewing him away on the With cote side with the body of the pack already straining at his well tagged brush." Field , Jan. 2, 1886. tăg'-ger, s . [Eng. tag, v.; -er.] *1. One who tags or attaches one thing to another. *2. Anything pointed, like a tag. "I should wrong them by comparing Hedge-hogs, or porcupines' small taggers , To their more dangerous swords and daggers." Cotton: To John Bradshaw, Esq . 3. A sheet of tin or other plate which runs below the gauge of the box or bunch to which it belongs, and is consequently set aside as light, and used for other purposes, such as coffin-plates, .