the description. Its nearest affinity is doubtless with Doronicum 
Webbii, Schultz Bipont. in Webb’s ‘Canarian Flora,’ p. 333 ; but 
that is said to have the ray of the capitulum white, and to have 
the achenia of the disc, “inter omnes hujus sectionis species pi- 
losissima.’’ It will doubtless surprise others, as it assuredly did 
ourselves, to find this plant, which has so much in common with 
_ the other purple-flowered Senecios (or Cinerarias) of the Canary 
Islands, separated from those genera and transferred to Doro- 
nicum ; but truly this (and some others of the same supposed 
group) has the essential character of Doronicum, viz. the achenia 
of the disc with, and that of the ray without, pappus. If these 
characters are of any value, such species cannot be retained in 
Senecio. Judging from Mr. Webb’s figure (tab. 104, Phyto- 
graphia Canariensis), Doronicum cruentum, Schultz Bip., should 
belong to Senecio; but Schultz explains the error in fig. 3 of 
that plate: “ Flos radii cum achenio, cui contra naturam pappus 
additus.” 
Duscr. The size of the plant doubtless varies much according 
to the soil, from one to two and a half and even three feet high, 
branched, generally glabrous. Leaves alternate, very variable ; 
lower ones on long footsta/ks and lyrato-pinnate ; terminal pinna 
very large, deeply cordate, acute, sinuato-angulate, the /ateral 
ones very small, distant, opposite, cordato-ovate ; petiole below 
winged on each side with a broad awricle ; upper leaves gra- 
dually losing their lateral pinnz, small, and the whole petiole is 
broadly winged or auricled and subamplexicaul; upper sides of 
the leaves glabrous, beneath white and cobwebby. Vowers in 
large, compound, somewhat leafy corymés ; pedicels with many, 
small, subulate dracteas. Involucre hemispherical, glabrous, 
destitute of bracteoles. Corollas of the ray palish purple, the 
achenium glabrous and destitute of pappus, those of the disc 
very deep purple, their achenia pilose, and the pappus nearly as 
long as the tubular floret. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Floret of the disc. 3. Hair of the pappus :— 
magnified. 
