Tenerife. Broussonet, to whom we are indebted for first 

 distinguishing these two plants, termed the lower-level 

 plant C' foeniculaceum ; that from above the cloud-belt 

 he named C. anethifolium. In his monogragh of the 

 Compositae, published in 1837, De Candolle adopted a 

 view which had already been advanced by Choisy, that 

 these two plants are only varieties of one species. For 

 this species De Candolle used Broussonet' s name C. foeni- 

 culaceum, treating the barrancos plant as the type, that 

 from the Canadas as one of its varieties. The two plants 

 are, however, now known to differ as markedly in their 

 morphological characters as they do in their habitats, 

 and when this was first realised the name C. anethifolium, 

 which belongs to the high-level plant, but which had for 

 many years gone out of use, reappeared in garden lists, 

 though, by some mischance, in Continental collections in 

 which both species are grown the name thus revived 

 was misapplied to the plant from low elevations, and that 

 of the low-level plant was transferred to the plant from 

 higher altitudes. In this country, where only the plant 

 from the barrancos is cultivated, there has been no 

 opportunity of comparing the two species in the living 

 state and of discovering the existence of the curious 

 error which has led to C. foeniculaceum from the lower 

 slopes of Tenerife being known in English gardens for at 

 least a quarter of a century by the name of another 

 species only found on the high plateau of that island. 

 Our plant, easy of propagation by cuttings at all seasons, 

 is in high and well-merited favour both in the conserva- 

 tory and, in summer, also out of doors. In Tenerife 

 C. foeniculaceum is in flower from January to April. 



Description. — Shrublet, 2-5 ft. high, glabrous, every- 

 where glaucous ; branches terete or slightly angular, 

 corymbosely ascending, herbaceous upwards, densely leafy. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate in outline, up to 4 in. long, 2| in. 

 wide, pinnatipartite, segments linear, lobulate, acute, 

 1 -nerved, thinly papery or almost membranous ; lobules 

 linear, up to ^ in. in length. Flower-heads numerous, 

 about 2 in. across, long-peduncled, solitary in the axils 

 of the upper leaves ; peduncles much longer than the 

 leaves, erect, naked, very slender. Bracts of the involucre 



