( 1836 ) 



BUPHTHALMUM SERICEUM. SlLKY Ox-EYE. 



Class and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. paleaceum. Pappus margo obsoletus. Seminum 

 latera, praesertim radii, marginata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Buphthalmum sericeum ; foliis oppositis approximatissimis 

 spathulato-oblongis sericeis, calycinis squamis setaceis 

 hirsutis, caule arboreo. Linn. Suppl. 379. Willd. Sp. 

 Pl.,3. p. 2230. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. }23. 



Buphthalmum sericeum ; foliis sparsis cuneiformibus acutis 

 integerrimis villoso-sericeis. Hort. Kew. ed. \ ma ' 3. p. 

 245. LHerit. Sert. Angl tab. 37. nunquam edita. 



Buphthalmum sericeum is a handsome dwarf shrub, though 

 the leaves lose something of their beauty in cultivation ; the 

 soft silky whiteness of the pubescence becoming greener and 

 coarser than in native specimens. 



Table 34 of L'Heritier's Sertum Anglicum, quoted in 

 the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, we believe, was 

 never published j we do not therefore know that any other 

 representation of this plant than the one here given, is 

 before the public. 



Native of Fuertaventura, one of the Canary Islands, and 

 is called by the Spanish inhabitants Forjada. Discovered by 

 Mr. Francis Masson, and introduced into the Kew Gardens 

 in 1779. 



May be propagated by cuttings. Requires the protection 

 of the greenhouse. Flowers most part of the summer. 

 Communicated by John Walker, Esq. of Arno's-Grove. 



