CHAP. LXVII. COMPOSITA. CINERA RIA. 1071 
Genus VII. 
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CINERA‘RIA Lessing. Tue Crnerarta. Lin. Syst. Syngenésia 
Supérflua. 
Identification. Less. Synops. Gen. Compos., p. 389. 
Synonymes. Cineraire, Fr. ; Aschenpflanze, Ger. x 
Derivation. From cineres, ashes ; the surface of the leaves being covered with down. 
2 1.C. maritima L. The Sea-side-inhabiting Cineraria, or the Sea Ragwort. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1244. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 3. p. 75.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 5. p. 75. 
Synonymes. Cineraria Dod. Pempt., 642.; Jacobe‘a maritima Bonp. ; Sicilian Ragwort. 
Engravings. Flor. Grec., t. 871.; Park., 689. f.7.; Lob. Icon., 2272.; Ger. Emac., 280. f. 4. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves pinnatifid, tomentose beneath ; the lobes obtuse, and each 
consisting of about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles. Involucre tomen- 
tose. (Willd. Sp. Pi.) A native of the south of Europe, onthe sea coast and on 
rocks. It grows about Vaucluse, in the cliffs of the perpendicular rock, above 
the spring. It was cultivated in Britain in the time of Gerard and Parkinson, 
and was by these authors, and by Miller, erroneously considered as indi- 
genous. It is a suffrutescent plant, with rambling branches, growing, in dry 
soil and a warm situation, 3 ft. or 4 ft. high, and producing its yellow ragwort- 
like flowers from June to August. Unless planted 
in very dry soil, it is liable to be killed to the 
ground in severe winters; but such is the beauty 
of its whitish, large, and deeply sinuated fo- 
liage, at every season of the year, that it well 
deserves a place against a conservative wall, 
where it may be placed near Solanum margina- 
tum, and any other ligneous whitish-leaved species 
of that genus. 
App. 1. Half-hardy Species of Cineraria. 
There are numerous species of Cineradria, which are somewhat 
ligneous, and are frame or green-house plants, of low growth, 
flowering in April or May; and, where there is a rockwork sus- 
ceptible of being protected during the winter season, these may 
be tried upon it. C. cruénta ( fig. 842.), perhaps rather herbaceous 
than suffruticose, though so marked in our Hort. Brit., C. ldctea, 
C. canéscens, C. hgbrida, C. populif lia, C. bicolor, C. lanata 
(fiz. 843.), C. getfolia (fig. 844.), and C. amelldides L., Agathe‘a ceeléstis Cas. (figs. 845, 846.), may be 
mentioned as examples. All these species seed freely, and also mule together; so that abundance of 
plants may be easily raised, which may be preserved in a frame through the winter, and turned out 
in the spring. 


