According to Lessing, — who has done for Composite what 

 Mr. Bentham is doing for Labiate?, and to whom the world 

 is indebted not only for the first general work upon Com- 

 posite, but also for the disentanglement of a subject, which 

 the labours, as they are called, of Cassini have served only 

 to render more unintelligible than before, — this species, re- 

 ferred by Willdenow and L'Heritier to Cineraria, is in reality 

 a species of Senecio ; a view which we have no difficulty in 

 adopting, especially as its habit is quite that of the latter 

 genus. 



J. L. 



