SENECIO cruentus. 
Blood-red Senecio. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. 
ASTERACER (ComPosITE—SENECIONIDEA, DeCandolle). 
SENECIO. Bot. Reg. t. 1342. 
S. cruentus; caule herbaceo erecto pilosiusculo, foliis petiolo alato basi auricu- 
lato limbo cordato angulato denticulato utrinque pilosiusculo subtüs pur- 
pureo, capitulis corymbosis, pedicellis subbracteolatis, involucri squamis 
15-16, ligulis 10-12.  DeCand. Prodr. vi. 410. 
Cineraria aurita. Andr. bot. rep. t. 24, 
Cineraria cruenta. L’Herit. sert. angl.26. Vent. malm. 99. 
The many beautiful varieties of Cineraria, as they are 
miscalled, which render greenhouses so gay in the spring, 
and which are brought to such a high degree of perfec- 
tion by Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, are either 
referable to this species of Senecio, or are produced between 
it and S. maderensis, (the Cineraria aurita of the gardens). 
It is now therefore difficult to find a specimen exhibiting the 
appearance of the species in its natural state, unchanged by 
culture. 1 am therefore glad to have the opportunity of 
producing a figure made from a plant raised from seed- 
collected in Teneriffe by Philip Barker Webb, Esq.; and at 
the same time of stating to what kind of climate the species 
is exposed in its native country. e 
Messrs. Webb and Berthellot, in their valuable account 
of the Canaries, recognize three principal modifications of 
climate, the lower, intermediate, and upper. Statice arborea, 
the subject of the last plate, belongs to the first, the nature 
of which has been already explained ; Senecio cruentus be- 
longs to the second. This zone extends from 1500 to 5000 
feet above the sea, with a climate varying on the north and 
