194 COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



S. aureus, (ioi.nEx RAGWORT or SQUAW-WEED. Cottony what young, 



becoming Miiouth with age, .-ometimc- <|uite >inooth when young, with simple 

 steins I -'} 3 high, root-lea\e- -imple ami in dilK-rcnt varieties cither round, 

 obovate, heart-.-haped, obiong, or -patulatc, eremite or cut-toothed, on -lender 

 petioles, lower -tern-leaves 1\ ratr, upper one- sessile or clasping and eut-pin- 

 natirid; coryinlt uniliel-like ; ray- s- 12. ^ 



2. Exotic species, cultivated for ornant> nt from the Old World. 



* K.MI'I.IA, or CACALIA. /' tin- i>!di r liotnnists, intli no rm/s. Init muny oriunff- 



r/il ilisk-jlmri rs in /t very simple cup-like inroiucre: ukenes with 5 </</</ 

 <iml hispid-citiate <m<il< s. \ 



S. SOnchif61ia, TASS;.L-FLOWER: cult, as a summer annual, from India 

 very smooth or a little bristly, pule or glaucous, l-2 high, with root-leaves 

 obovate and pctioled. stem-Ie.ivcs sagittate and partly clasjiing, and rather .-howv 

 heads in a naked corymb, in Mimmer. 



* * Heads with no rays and only 6-12 disk-jinn; /*, small, yelloic: st< m i i-l, I/NI'/V /</ 



climbiny, more or leas twining. 



S. SCandens, cult, as hmi-e plant under the name of (;I:I:MA\ Ivv, but is 

 from Cape of Good Hope, and resembles Ivy only in the leaves, which are 

 round-heart-shaped or angled and with .'i - 7 pointed lobes, soft and tender in 

 texture, and very smooth : the flower- -ddoin produced. 2/ 



* * * CIXEKAIJIA. IJi-nda ir/t/i /<;//< and numerous disk-flowers : not climbers. 



-i- Flou; /.> nil //, How. 11 



S. Cineraria, or Cixia:\i;i\ MAKI'I IM\, of .Mediterranean eoa-t, an old- 

 fashioned house-plant, ash-white all over (\vhenee the name L'n><.r<iri<t. and the 

 popular one of DUSTY MILLER) with a woolly coating; the branching stems 

 somewhat woody at base ; leaves pinnatelv parted and the divi-ions mostly 

 binuate-lobed ; the small heads in a dense corymb. 



S. Kserapferi, of Japan and China, i- most probably the original of the 

 F ARK IK; it;. M <JRANI>K, lately introduced into the gardens, where it hardly ever 

 flowers : it is cultivated for the to ia^e, the thick and smooth rounded and angled 

 rather kidney-shaped root-leaves blotched with white; >ome of the tlowers more 

 or less 2-lippcd. 21 



+- - Ray-Jlowers ]>ur/>Ie, n'nlct, blur, or run/ii/tj to /<//<, thus?, (if the disk oj 

 similar f/>'<>rs or sometimes yellow. 



S. Heretieri, or CIXEKAUIA LAN.'VTA, from Tenerifle, with woody base 

 to the stem, rounded heart-shaped 5 - 7-lobcd leaves on .-lender petioles, very 

 white-cottony beneath but soon smooth and green above, and peduncle hearing 

 solitary rather large head of purple flowers, is a le-> common house-plant than 

 the next. 2/ 



S. cruentUS, the COMMOV CIXERAHI v of the greenhotises, from 'I'ene- 

 ritVe, is herbaceous, .-mootliish, with the heart-shaped and angled more or less 

 cut-toothed leaves green above and usually crim-on or purple underneath, the 

 lower with wing-margined petioles dilated into da-ping auricles at the base; 

 heads numerous in a tlat eorvmb, the handsome tlowcr.- purple, crimson, blue, 

 white, &c. T/ 



S. elegaus, rn;iM.i: \\ \<;WOKT, from Cape of (Jood Hope, a smooth herb, 

 with deeply pinnatilid leaves, the lower petioled, the upper with half clasping 

 ba-e, the lobes oblong and often sinuate-toothed ; he:i.l- corvmbed, with yellow 

 or purple disk-Mower- and purple or rardv white ravs. i ,\.nd a full-double 

 variety, having the disk-flowers turned into rays. 2/ 



31. ARNICA. (Old name, thought to be a corruption of I^tirinica.) The 

 common Kuropcan specie- i- u>ed in medicine. The following probably has 

 similar properties. ^ 



A. nudicatllis, so called for the naked stem, which bears only 1 or 1' pairs 

 of small leaves, although 1-.1 high, the main leaves beiiiLT clustered at the 

 root, thickisli. sessile, ovate or oblong, :: - "i-nerved, mo-tlv enrire, hairy ; heads 

 several. loody corymlird. prettv large and showv, in spring. Low pine-barrens 

 from S. 1'eim. S. 



