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SENECIO populifolius ; var. lacteus. 
Milk-white Poplar-leaved Senecio. 
SES eto 
 SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. ASTERACEZ, or COMPOSITÆ. 
SENECIO. Linn. 
S. populifolius ; fruticosus foliis petiolatis cordatis ovatis acutis denticulatis 
suprà adultis glaberrimis subtüs ramisque cano-tomentosis, capitulis corym- 
bosis glabris, pedicellis tenuissimé bracteolatis, involucri squamis 12-15, 
ligulis circiter 10. DeCand. prodr. vi. 409, 
Cacalia appendiculata, Linn. f. suppl. 352. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1729. 
Cineraria populifolia, D Herit. sert. angl. 26. 
Cineraria appendiculata. Poir. suppl. 2. 263. 
Var. C. lactea. Willd. enum. suppl. 59. 
A little known greenhouse shrub, which, now that the 
growth of the Cineraria-like Senecios has become so suc- 
cessful, deserves to be brought to notice, either for cultivation 
in its original purity, or for the purpose of producing hybrid 
intermixtures. No coloured figure of it has previously ap- 
peared, but it appears from DeCandolle's Prodromus that 
it is to form the subject of one of the outline engravings 
illustrative of Webb and Berthellot’s ** Flore des Isle 
Canariennes.” 
It is a native of the Canaries, in woods on the isle of 
Palma, whence it was sent by Mr. Philip Barker Webb to 
his Gardener at Milford, near Godalming ; and the drawing 
now published was made so long since as June, in the year 
1832, from a plant communicated to me by Mr. Young, now 
nurseryman of that place. 
DeCandolle considers it a variety of the yellow C. populi- 
folia. 
The species is best treated as a half-hardy perennial ; it 
grows freely in any rich soil, and flowers during a great 
August, 1839. R 
