lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, largest 1 in. long and 
qs in. broad, almost glabrous or muricately-scabrid above, 
woolly below, margins recurved. Flower-heads about + in. 
across, terminating short, Jateral branchlets. Bracts of 
the involucre in 3 series, oblong, longest 4 in. long, . 
1o? 6 
pubescent at the apex, margins scariose, ciliate. Ray-flowers 
about 9; tube % in. long, sparsely pilose outside, limb 
elliptic 4 in. long, 4-nerved, obtuse. Disk-flowers about 12 ; 
tube = in. long, lobes acute. Anthers apiculate. Style- 
branches papillose. Achenes +5 in. long, slightly com- 
pressed, sparsely pilose ; setae of the pappus 4/5 in. long.— 
J. Hurcninson. 
CuitivaTion.— Olearia ramulosa is an old garden plant 
which has been grown at Kew many years for greenhouse 
decoration. It forms an elegant shrub a yard or so high, 
and the long freely branched shoots when clothed in early 
spring with white aster-like flowers are particularly orna- 
mental. Grown in pots out of doors during summer and 
wintered in a greenhouse it is easily kept in health, and if 
afforded a little extra heat in December it will flower 
readily some weeks earlier than its usual time. Like all 
the species of Olearia it is easily propagated by means of 
cuttings. In the South of Engiand and Ireland it may be 
seen here and there treated as a wall shrub, the main shoots 
being trained against the wall, and from these there is 
annually produced a thick crop of long branchlets which 
flower freely in spring. After flowering, these shoots are 
spurred. back.— W. Warson. 
Fig. 1, branchlet bearing an unopened flower head; 2, a ray-flower; 3, a 
disk-flower; 4, a bristle of the pappus; 5, anthers; 6, stigma :—all enlarged. 
