Dr. Shaw. At the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. it is 

 treated as a hardy phmt, and grows in great hixurianee, 

 foniiing a close grey-leaved bush of considerable chcnni- 

 fereneo, and about a foot and half high; but flowers too late 

 in the year for the bloom to be seen in perfection any where 

 but in the greenhouse. The specific name has l)een derived 

 from tlje likeness of the foliage to that of the common Stock 

 or Gilliflower; tliough the resemblance appears to us much 

 stronger between the stem and branches of the two plants 

 than between their foliage. 



The principal distinction of Othonna, besides'the barren 

 disk and fertile ray, is a simple definitely cleft calyx. 



Chclrifolia is an evergreen glaucous thickish leaved un- 

 dershrub; stems like those of the common Stock, procum- 

 bent, rooting ; branches assurgent, herbaceous, glaucous, 

 fleshy, proliferous or shootbearing in the axil of every leaf. 

 Leaves alternate, distich, halfstemclasping, with short inter- 

 vals, rather fleshy, spathulate or cuneate, elongatedly ob- 

 long, about 3 inches in length and \ of an inch at the 

 broadest, round-topped, with a small obsolete point, sur- 

 rounded by a narrow white cartilaginous roughish edge: 

 Jlnral ones oblong, 1 or 2 sometimes very short and ovate. 

 Peduncles one-flowered, terminal, solitary, upright, round, 

 thickish, longer than the leaves, smooth. Flowers golden 

 yellow, more than an inch in diameter, rayed. Calyx green, 

 of one piece, campanulate, about half an inch deep, 7-8- 

 cleft, smooth, glaucous, segments acuminated, villous at 

 the point, with a white membranous edge. Florets of the 

 ray fertile, 12-13? one third longer than the calyx, blade 

 broadly ligulate, obovately oblong, 5-nerved, turned in at 

 the sides, twoplaited at the back, 3-toothletted, tube slender, 

 filiform, smooth, greenish; stigma twocleft, deep yellow, 

 frosted, lobes short, linear, oblong, reflex along the sides, 

 protruding; gemien white, turbinate, round, twice shorter 

 than the pappus, smooth: pappus white, numerous, feathered, 

 dense, equal to the tube: florets of the disk barren, long- 

 funnelforin, smooth, yellow, limb pointed upright together 

 with the faux equal to the tube: anthers deep yellow, pro- 

 truding but little: stigma clavate, pubescent, greenish, pro- 

 truding: germen slender or filiform, equal to tube: pappus 

 thin, few-rayed. Heceptacle naked, conical. 



