142 A GROUP OF HARDY COMPOSITE PLANTS. 



all the species have the florets of the ray tipped with yellow, and reddish crimson 

 at the base. They are easily increased by division, cuttings or seeds, and seed- 

 lings will flower the same season. 



The Oazania rigetis is a great favourite with most amateurs, and in mild winters will 

 bear exposure in the open borders ; but, under the most favourable circumstances, it 

 will be prudent to cover it with a hand-light, or inverted pot, in winter, It 

 does not exceed eight or ten inches in height, and bears large handsome, 

 solitary flowers, of an orange colour. 



The fragrant Coltsfoot, Tussilago fragrans, is valuable for producing its 

 flowers in mid- winter; but it is rather troublesome, unless confined in a pot, 

 as its roots spread in every direction; thus grown, it may be removed to the 

 sitting room when in bloom. The T. alpina is rather more delicate, and does 

 best on rock-work, or treated as an alpine ; it is a very neat little plant. 



Although we are at present unacquainted with its flowers, we may recommend, 

 on the authority of Messrs. Vilmorin of Paris, from whom we have obtained seeds, 

 the Vittadenia lobata, a dwarf plant, producing throughout the year an 

 abundance of pretty daisy-like flowers, at first white, but becoming ultimately 

 of a clear pink or rose colour. "We have not yet seen it in any English seed 

 list, but it may be obtained from the quarter already named. 



We may group together, in a concluding paragraph, two or three plants which 

 we have omitted to notice in their proper places, they are the Cineraria maritima, 

 with yellow flowers and white leaves, producing a curious effect; the Catanche 

 mrulea, which in light sandy soils will prove of value ; the orange Hawkweed, 

 Hieracium aurantiacum ; the Selenium autumnale, with large yellow flowers ; and 

 the Pyrethrum roseam, a plant which, as we remarked in a previous number, 

 would well reward any attention which might be bestowed on it. 



"We do not profess to have named all, or even a majority of the ornamental 

 genera of Composite plants. "We have, however, referred to the most remarkable 

 of those which can be procured in this country; many of the genera 

 recorded in botanical works being practically unattainable ; all the species 

 named in the foregoing pages are, we think, really deserving cultivation. 



NOTICES OF NEW OR RAKE PLANTS. 



Clematis lanuginosa. (Rannnctriaeex.) — A very remarkable species from the North of China or 

 Japan, with immense flowers of a delicate violet blue, composed of six broad sepals, overlapping at 

 their edges. The blossoms are at least five or six inches in diameter, produced singly at the 

 extremity of the shoots, as in the C. ccerulea and ft Sieboldtii, with which it has a close affinity. 

 It is likely to prove equally hardy, but will, probably, like those species, be seen to the best 

 advantage when grown as a pot plant. Its flower-buds are covered with a woolly pubescence, 



