LAGASCEA (named after M. Lagasca, a Spanish botanist and professor at Madrid, who died in 1839). Sometimes spelt Lagasca. SYN.Noccaea. ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about seven species of rather rigid stove shrubs or herbs, natives of Mexico and Central America. Flower-heads doubly compound, solitary, or in leafy, crowded, corymbose panicles; each floret having a slender, tubular, white, yellow, or red corolla. Leaves opposite, or the upper ones alternate, entire or toothed. The species are not particularly valuable for horticultural purposes. For culture, see Dysodia. LAGASCEA latifolia (broad-leaved). fl.-heads white, fragrant, terminal; bracts six to eight; florets five-toothed, woolly outside. June. l. opposite, sessile, more or less clasping the stem at the base, oblong or elliptical, taper-pointed. h. 10ft. to 12ft. Mexico. Shrub. (S. B. F. G. 215, under name of Nocca latifolia.) LAGASCEA mollis (soft). fl.-heads white; involucre five-leaved. August and September. l. petiolate, ovate, acuminate, sub-serrate, sometimes quite entire. Cuba. Plant velvety. Annual. (B. M. 1804.)