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SENECIO populifolius ; var. lacteus. 



Milk-white Poplar-leaved Senecio. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



Nat. ord. AsTERACEiE, or Compositje. 

 SENECIO. Linn. 



S. populifolius ; fruticosus follis petiolatis cordatis ovatis acutis denticulatis 

 supra adultis glaberrimis subtils ramisque cano-tomentosls, capitulis corym- 

 bosis glabris, pedicellis tenuissime bracteolatis, involucri squamis 12-15, 

 ligulis circiter 10. DeCand. prodr. vi. 409, 



Cacalla appendiculata. Linn./, suppl. 352. Willd.sp.pl. 3. 1729. 



Cineraria populifolia. L'Herit. sert. angl. 26. 



Cineraria appendiculata. Poir. suppl. 2. 263. 



Far. C. lactea. Willd. enum. suppl. 59. 



A little known greenhouse shrub, which, now that the 

 growth of the Cineraria-like Senecios has become so suc- 

 cessful, deserves to be brought to notice, either for cultivation 

 in its original purity, or for the purpose of producing hybrid 

 intermixtures. No coloured figure of it has previously ap- 

 peared, but it appears from DeCandolle's Prodromus that 

 it is to form the subject of one of the outline engravings 

 illustrative of Webb and Berthellot's " Flore des Isle 

 Canariennes." 



It is a native of the Canaries, in woods on the isle of 

 Palma, whence it was sent by Mr. Philip Barker Webb to 

 his Gardener at Milford, near Godalming ; and the drawing 

 now published was made so long since as June, in the year 

 1832, from a plant communicated to me by Mr. Young, now 

 nurseryman of that place. 



DeCandolle considers it a variety of the yellow C. populi- 

 folia. 



The species is best treated as a half-hardy perennial ; it 

 grows freely in any rich soil, and flowers during a great 

 August, 1839. r 



