

According to Lessing, — who has done for Composite what 

 Mr. Bentham is doing for Labiata, and to whom the world 

 is indebted not only for the first general work upon Com- 

 posite, but also for the disentanglement of a subject, which 

 the labours, as they are called, of Cassini have served only 

 to render more unintelligible than before, — this species, re- 

 ferred by Willdenow and L'Hentier to Cineraria, is in reality 



pecies of Senecio ; a view which we have no difficulty in 





adopting, especially 

 gen 



habit is quite that of the 



J. L. 







