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Senecio ELecans. Purpte GRrounpselL, 
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oe ~-Clafs and Order. — 
SYNGENESIA PoLyGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Charaer. 
Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cal, cylindricus, calyculatus, 
- Squamis apice {phacelatis. \ 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. x 
SENECIO elegans corollis radiantibus, foliis pinnatifidis zqua- — 
libus patentiflimis margine incraffato réecurvato. _ 
Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 7 7° 
SENECIO elegans corollis radiantibus, foliis pilofo-vifcidis 
pinnatifidis zqualibus patentiffimis, rachi inferne 
anguftata, calycibus hirtis. Ast Kew. v, 3+ p. 193- 
ASTER africanus annuus fenecionis foliis. Comm. Horte 2. p» 
59 #. 30. . 
Linn us has given to this charming annual the name of _ 
elegans, on account of the great beauty of its flowers, the 2 
florets of the radius being of a moft brilliant purple, and thofe — 
of the difk bright yellow; colours regarded as peculiar to this — 
plant, till the Sen. venuflus deferibed in the Hort. Kew. was | 
-difcovered and introduced here; it is a native of the Cape. and 
other parts of Africa, grows ufually to the height of a footand — 
a half, or two feet; flowers from June to Augutt, grows readily, — 
requiring the fame treatment as. other annuals of the more nf 
tender kind; feedling plants raifed in the autumn in pots, and 
kept inthe green-houfe or under a frame during winter, will, — 
of courfe, flower much earlier than plants produced in thefpring. _ 
Within thefe few years, a variety of this Senecio with per- | 
fe€tly double flowers, equally brilliant as thofe of the fingle — 
kind, has been introduced, and is here figured ; this, from its _ 
fuperior beauty, is now cultivated, in preference to the fingle; 
there is double variety of it alfo with white flowers, which be- 
ing lefs fhewy is not fo much efteemed ; both of thefe are — 
raifed, and that readily, from cuttings, which as foon as well — 
rooted may be planted out in the open borders, where they — 
will be highly ornamental during moft of the fummer; as — 
young plants are moft defirable, we fhould take care to‘have 2 _ 
conftant fucceffion from cuttings regularly put in, and to pre- 
ferve pots of fuch in particular, in the green-houfe duri 
winter, for early blowing the enfuing fummer. a 
_ _ The fingle fort was cultivated here, by Cyarzes Dusol 
Efgq. in the year 1700, Git. Kew, See es 
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