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XERANTHEMUM SESAMOIDES. SUPERB 
XERANTHEMUM. 
Je a Hnieinicibeie 
Cla/s and Order. 
SyNGENESIA PoLyGAMiA SUPERFLUA, 
= Generic Charaéfer. 
Recept. paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus, Cal. imbricatus radiatus: 
radio colorato. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
XERANTHEMUM /e/amoides ramis unifloris imbricatis foliis 
: linearibus. Linn. Syf. Vegetab. ed. 14- 
Murr. p. 750. > | 
Ieicnaliniaits 
To Mrs. Gostinc, of Whitton, near Hounflow, appertains 
the honour of raifing this fpecies of Xeranthemum, and of © 
thereby introducing one of the moft deleétable plants that ever 
decorated the Britifh green-houfe ; this was about the year . : 
1795, laft Summer (1797) it flowered with Meffrs. Grim- 
woop and Wvxes, Nurlerymen, Kenfington, and again much 
ftronger this prefent feafon, there being at leaft twenty blof- 
foms on a fingle plant of it. Ee ff 
This is not one of thofe beauties, which meteor-like, dazzle 
the eye and vanifh, but one which continues to difplay its 
charms from the time of its firft budding to the full expanfion 
of its bloffoms, a period of two or three months; in any 
thefe its different ftates, if gathered, and carefully dried, it 
will make a moft valuable addition to fimilar plants for de- 
corating apartments in the Winter. _ 3 
It is a native of the Cape, from whence Mrs. GostiNneé 
obtained ie feeds, flowers in May and June, and may be in-— oe 
creafed by cuttings; in this way Mr. Wyxzs has fucceeded 
In propagating it : but as there are few that equal him in a | 
: knowledge of exotics, fo there are few that exercife the fame 
ingenuity in their culture, or equal him in fuccefs, 
