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Senecio—continwed. 
February. transversely oblong, 2in. to 2sin. broad, obreni- 
form, or orbicular-reniform ; petioles lin. to 2in. long, slender, 
dilated at base into a convex auricle over lin. long. British 
Central Africa, 1898. A remarkable and attractive, greenhouse, 
climbing shrub. (B. M. 7731.) 
S. Balbisianus (Balbis’). Piedmont Groundsel. 
name of Cineraria longifolia (of Allioni). 
S. brachychetus (short-bristled). 
Cineraria longifolia. 
S. calamifolius (Calamus-leaved). 
caulescens. 
S. candicans (whitish). l.-heads insignificant, seven or eight 
in a sub-umbellate corymb, 7. large, entire, leathery; radical 
ones petiolate, ovate, crenate; upper ones sessile, elliptic- 
oblong. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, woolly. Falkland 
{slands, 1898. Hardy. ; 
S. carniolicus (Carniolan). jl.-heads yellow, twice the size of 
those of S. incanus; pedicels elongated; corymb_ simple. 
7. oblong, narrowed to the petioles, incised-sub-pinnatifid ; lobes 
entire. Stems ascending from the base, simple, somewhat 
tufted. Alps. A cobwebby-woolly, hardy perennial. 
S. Cineraria. The correct name of Cineraria maritima. 
S. Claussenii (Claussen’s). /l.-heads orange-yellow, rather large, 
five or six in a corymbiform raceme at the tip of an axillary 
pecuncls 3sin. to 6in. long. Autumn. JZ. deeply sinuate- 
obed ; lobes acute, covered when young, and especially beneath, 
with an abundance of silvery, cottony wool, as is the whole of 
the plant more or less. Stems bushy. h. 2ft. Brazil, 1855. 
Greenhouse or half-hardy. : 
S. Correvonianus (Correvon’s). /l.-heads yellow, handsome, 
disposed in a panicle at the summit of a bare stem. 
7. coriaceous, reniform or cordate, borne on long petioles. 
Caucasus, 1897. Hardy, alpine perennial. 
S. cruenta (blood-red), The correct name of Cineraria cruenta. 
S. ficoides (Ticus-like). /l.-heads white, disposed in paniculate 
corymbs; involucre cylindrical, with seven or eight scales. 
July to November. /. fleshy, nerveles8, compressed, acuminate, 
elaucous-pruinose. Stem fleshy-shrubby, South Africa, 1710. 
Greenhouse. SyN. Kleinia jicoides. 
S. Galpini (Galpin’s). /.-heads of a brilliant orange-colour, 
disposed in a lax corymb on a Jeafy stem lft. high. 7. fleshy, 
glaucous, oblanceolate. Barren stems short, compact, tufted. 
Transvaal, 1892. A greenhouse species, of the section Kleinia. 
(B. M. 7239.) 
S. Gunnisii (Gunnis’). A synonym of S. pendula. 
S. Hanburianus (Hanbury’s). fl.-heads pale yellow, disposed 
in loose cymes. ¢. chordiform, about Ift. long. Stem fleshy, 
branched, Sin. long. South Africa (?), 1898. Stove. Said to 
be a new species, allied to S. chordifolius. 
S. Heritieri (L’Heritier’s). /l.-heads bright purple and white, 
radiate; inyolucral scales fifteen to twenty; peduncles one- 
headed, scarcely longer than the petioles. Spring. J. petiolate, 
somewhat cordate-orbicular, five- to seven-lobed, jin. in 
diameter, white-woolly beneath. Teneriffe, &c., 1845. Green- 
house shrub. (G. & IF’, 1891, iv., p. 510, f. 79.) SYNs. Cineraria 
aurita (Gn. xxxviii., p. 252, t. 770), C. lanata (B. M. 53). 
S. Hualtata (Chilian native name),  l.-heads lin. across, 
shortly pedicellate, in crowded clusters at the ends of the 
naked branches of a panicle lft. to 2ft. high; ray florets 
twelve to sixteen, pale straw-coloured; disk golden-yellow. 
June. J. chiefly radical, lft. to 14ft. long, oblong-ovate, bluish- 
green or purplish beneath. A. 5ft. Chili and Argentina, 1890. 
ardy perennial. (B. M. 7422.) 
S. japonicus (Japanese). 
japonica, 
S. kleinioides (Kleinia-like). This species resembles 9. Antew- 
horbium, but has smaller flower-heads and flat obovate 
eaves; florets thirteen to twenty-two, all tubular, half as 
long again as the. involucre. Abyssinia, 1894. A glabrous, 
greenhouse shrub. 
S. latifolius (broad-leaved), 
S. laxifolius. 
S. laxifolius (lax-leaved). /.-heads yellow, about lin. across, 
in very loose, terminal, somewhat corymb-like panicles; ray 
florets twelve to fifteen, elliptic-oblong. June. ¢@. sin. to 
2sin. long, usually elliptic- or linear-oblong, entire; petioles 
sin. to Zin. long. New Zealand, 1894. A small, much-branched, 
reenhouse shrub. (B. M. 7578; Gn. 1895, ii., 1008.) Syn. 
. latifolius, of Masters (G. C. 1894, ii., f. 43). 
S. Ledebourii (Ledebour’s), The correct name of Ligularia 
macrophylla. 
8. cigar ca (white-spiked). A greenhouse or half-hardy, 
tufted under-shrub, with white-tomentose leaves, much in the 
way of S. Cineraria (Cineraria maritima), 
pinnatisect. Uruguay, 1893. (B. H. 1893, f. 37.) 
The corree 
The correct name of 
A synonym of S. scaposus 
° 
The correct. name of Ligularia 
of Masters. A synonym of 
but elegantly 
Senecio—con/inwed. 
S. lilacinus (lilac). Although closely related and from the 
same country, this is considered specifically distinct from 
S. glastifolius. 
s. longip&s (long-stalked). jl.-heads scarlet, hemispherical, 
2in. in diameter; pedicels three, green, scaly; peduncle 
terminal, 10in. high. June. J. crowded, spreading and 
recurved, thickly fleshy, 2in. to 24in, long, ovate to spathulate- 
oblong, obtuse, entire. Stem 6in. to 8in. long, decumbent, 
copiously leafy. Eastern tropical Africa, 1899, A glabrous, 
stove herb. Syn. Kleinia Grantii (B. M. 7691). - 
S. macrophyllus (large-leaved).* /l.-heads yellow, numerous, 
disposed in loose, terminal corymbs; ray florets five. August. 
1., lower ones ample, oblong-obovate, obtuse, on long, winged 
petioles ; upper ones sessile, amplexicaul. Stems robust, 6ft. 
in height. Orient, 1896. Shea erennial, something in the 
way of S. Doria. (R. H. 1896, f. rh) 
S. multiflorus (many-flowered). l.-/ieads lilac-purple, numerous, 
in a compound, paniculate corymb; involucral scales twelve 
to fifteen. Summer. /. 3in. in diameter, cordate-reniform, 
slightly angled, scarcely toothed, nearly glabrous above, 
tomentose beneath; petioles 3in. long, dilated at base. Stems 
erect, glabrous. h. 3ft. Canary Isles, 1853,  Half-hardy 
erennial. SyYNS. Cineraria multiflora, Doronicum Bourgei 
B. M. 4994). 
S. Palmeri (Palmer's). j.-heads few, with yellow rays, about 
lin. in diameter, disposed in a pedunculate corymb. JZ. oblong- 
lanceolate, slightly toothed, narrowed into rather long petioles. 
h, lft. to 2ft. Guadeloupe Island, Lower California, 1890. 
Greeunonee perennial or hardy annual, densely clothed with 
white felt. 
S. pendulus (pendulous). /l.-heads bright vermilion mixed with 
orange-colour, depressed, about 14in. across, peduncles 3in. or 
more in length. October. J. 4in. long, produced only at the 
growing tips of the young joints. Stem consisting of a few 
curved or crooked, cylindrical joints each 4in. to 15in. long, 
obtuse, fleshy. Somaliland, &c. A singular, greenhouse 
species. SYNS. S. Gunnisii, Kleinia pendula (B. M. 659). 
small and 
S. Petasites (Petasites).*  jl.-heads yellow, 
very. numerous, disposed in a very large,  thyrsoid, 
terminal panicle. Summer and autumn. J. petiolate, 
ample, rather thick, rounded-cordate at base, with five to 
seven angular lobes, dark green above, pale beneath. Stem 
robust, fleshy, slightly branched, shrubby at base. A. 3ft. 
to 44ft. Mexico. Greenhouse. Syns. S. platanifolius (of 
gardens), Cineraria Petasites. (B. M. 1536.) 
S. platanifolius (Plane-leaved). <A 
S. Petasites. 
S. populifolius (Poplar-leaved). /l.-heads having lilac-white 
rays and a yellow disk, disposed in a branched, nearly 
regular corymb. Spring and summer. J. petiolate, ovate- 
cordate, toothed, angular, glabrous and green above, white- 
tomentose beneath. Stems numerous, bushy, somewhat woody 
at base. h. 2ft. Canary Islands, Greenhouse. 
S. repens (creeping). /l.-heads few, corymbose. June. 7. fleshy, 
glaucous, oblong, acuminate. Stems fleshy, woody below. 
Roots creeping. South Africa, 1710. A glabrous, greenhouse 
species, smaller and more glaucous than S, jicoides, which it 
closely resembles. SYN. Kleinia repens. 
S. sagittatus (arrow-shaped). 
hastata. 
S. sagittifolius (arrow-leaved).* /l.-heads Ijin. in diameter, 
with a cream-white ray and a yellow disk; panicle many- 
flowered, at the tip of a simple floral stem 7ft. to 1l0ft. high, 
clothed with small amplexicaul leaves. 7., radical ones 
disposed in a rosette, Sft. long, lft. to 14ft. broad, sagittate, 
acute, with two leafy, crest-like processes along the midrib. 
Uruguay, 1892. A highly decorative and remarkable, green- 
house species. (B. M. 7322; G,. C. 1893, i., f. 50; R. H. 1892, 
p. 53, f. 16, 17.) 
S. scandens (climbing). A garden synonym of S. mikanioides. 
S. Smithii (Smith’s).* .-heads white, many in «a leafy, terminal 
anicle ; ray florets twenty to thirty, very variable, 4in. to qin. 
ong. June. /., lower ones 8in. to 10in, long, ovate or oblong, 
cuneate to bilobed at base, on very stout petioles ; upper ones 
sessile, oblong. Stem as thick as the thumb. A. Sft. to 4ft. 
South Chili and Fuegia, 1895. A noble, hardy perennial. 
eG 7531.) SYN. Cineraria gigantea (S. KE. B. ii., part ii, 
t. 65). 
S. spathuleefolius (spithulate-leaved). //.-heads orange-yellow, 
about as large as « shilling, many in a simple corymb; 
involucre woolly. /., radical ones ovate, broadly petiolate ; 
cauline ones sessile, lanceolate; all slightly toothed. Stem 
herbaceous, erect. h. 6in. to 12in. Alps, &c. A rather pretty, 
woolly-floceose, hardy species. 
S. venustus (charming). A synonym of S. grandiflorus. 
SENSITIVE FERN. ‘ee Onoclea sensibilis. 
SEPTORIA CHRYSANTHEMI. ‘See Chrysan- 
themum Leaf Spot. 
garden name for 
The correct name of Cacalia 
