CHAP. LXVII. 



coMrosiTiE. cinera'ria. 



1071 



Genus VII, 



CINERA^RIA Lessin<r. 



The Cineraria. 



Superflua. 



Lin. Syst, Syngenesia 



Identification. Less. Synops. Gen. Compos., p. 389. 

 Synonymes. Ciiieraire, Fr. ; Aschenpflaiize, Gcr. 

 Derivation. From cinercs, ashes ; the surface of the leaves being covered with down. 



!U 1. C. mari'tima L. The Sca-side-bihabiting Cineraria, or the Sea Ragwort. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1244. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 3. p. 75. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 5. p. 75. 

 Synoiujmes. Cineraria Dod. Pempt., 642. ; Jacobfe'a marUima Bonp. ; Sicilian Ragwort. 

 Engravings. Flor. Gra;c., t. 871. ; Park., 689. f. 7. ; Lob. Icon., 2272. ; Ger. Emac, 280. f. 4. 



Siyec. Char.,Sfc. Leaves pinnatifid.tomentose beneath; the lobes obtuse, and each 

 consisting of about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles. Involucre tomen- 

 tose. QVUId. 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 i 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 iS'oliinum margina- 

 tum, and any other ligneous whitish-leaved species 

 of that genus, 



App. i. Half-hardy Species of Cineraria. 843 



There are numerous species of Cineraria, 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. crudnta (fig. 842.J, perhaps rather herbaceous 

 than suffruticose, though so marked in our Hort. Brit., C. liictea, 

 C. canesccns, C. hytfrida, C. i>opu/ifbliu, C. hicolor, C. landta 

 (fig. 843.), C. gcifdlia (fig. 844.), and C. amelloidrs L., Agatha'a ccclestis 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 raued, which may be preserved in a frame through the winter, and turned out 

 in the spring. 



