SENECIO cruentus. 



Blood-red Senecio. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. 



AsTERACE.E (CoMPOsiTiE — SenecionidejE, DeCandolle). 

 SENECIO. Bot. Reg. t. 1342. 



S. cruentus ; caule herbaceo erecto pilosiusculo, foliis petiolo alato basl auricu- 

 lato limbo cordato angulato denticulate utrinque pilosiusculo subtils pur- 

 pureo, capitulis corymbosis, pedicellis subbracteolatis, involucri squamis 

 15-16, ligulis 10-12. DeCand. Prodr. vi. 410. 



Cineraria aurita. Andr. bot. rep. t. 24, 



Cineraria cruenta. VHerit. sert. angl. 26. Veiit, malm. 99. 



The many beautiful varieties of Cineraria, as they are 

 miscalled, which render greenhouses so gay in the spring, 

 and which are brought to such a high degree of perfec- 

 tion by Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, are either 

 referable to this species of Senecio, or are produced between 

 it and S. maderensis, (the Cineraria aurita of the gardens). 

 It is now therefore difficult to find a specimen exhibiting the 

 appearance of the species in its natural state, unchanged by 

 culture. I am therefore glad to have the opportunity of 

 producing a figure made from a plant raised from seed 

 collected in TenerifFe by Philip Barker Webb, Esq. ; and at 

 the same time of stating to what kind of climate the species 

 is exposed in its native country. 



Messrs. Webb and Berthellot, in their valuable account 

 of the Canaries, recognize three principal modifications of 

 climate, the lower, intermediate, and upper. Statice arborea, 

 the subject of the last plate, belongs to the first, the nature 

 of which has been already explained ; Senecio cruentus be- 

 longs to the second. This zone extends from 1500 to 5000 

 feet above the sea, with a climate varying on the north and 



