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HlPPIA FRUTESCENS. SHRUBBY HlPPIA, 



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Cfass and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Necessaria. 



Generic Character. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus 0. Sew. latissimis marginibus, 

 nuda. C«Z. hemisphaericus, subimbricatus. CorolluUe radii 10, 

 obsoletae, subtrifidae. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Hippia frutescens; fruticosa, villosa, foliis pinnatifidis, flo- 



ribus corymbosis. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 179. Linn. 



Sup. 390. Syst. Veg. 795. Witld. Sp. PI. 3. p. 2382. 



Thunb. Prod. 168. Gaertn. Fruct. 2. p. 390. t. 164, 



/. 6. Martj/n Mill Diet. n. 3. 

 Hippia frutescens, Syst. Veg. ed. 13, p. 661. Linn. Mant. 



291. 

 Tanacetum frutescens ; foliis pinnatifidis : laciniis lanceo- 



latis obtusiusculis integerrimis. Sp. PI. 1182. Berg. 



Cap. 243. Kniph. Cent. 1. n. 88. 

 Eriocephalus pectinifolius ; foliis planis pinnatis. Syst. Nat. 



ed. 12. p. 579. 

 Tanacetum africanum arborescens, foliis lavendulae multifido 



folio. Commel Hort. 2. p. 201. t. 101. 



It has been the fate of this shrub to puzzle even the 

 father of modern Botany, to determine to what genus it 

 should be referred. In the Species Plantarum, Linn^us first 

 placed it under Tanacetum : in the twelfth edition of the 

 Systema Naturae (Vegetab.) he removed it to Eriocephalus : 

 and in the thirteenth edition, he remarked, that it had more 

 affinity with Iva than with Tanacetum ; but concluding that 

 it was distinct from both, he separated it as a genus, and 



gave 



