SENE'CIO EL'EGANS. 



PURPLE GROUNDSEL. 

 Class. Order. 



SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA SUPBRFLUA. 



Natural Order. 



CORYMBIFEREjE. 



No. 40. 



Senecio, from the Latin senex, an old man; a 

 name which has been given to it from the fancied 

 resemblance of its seed down to the grey or silvery 

 head of age. Elegans, elegant. The seed of this 

 plant is usually sold under the name of Jacobaea, 

 which term has been handed down from some old 

 botanists, who called it Flos Sancti Jacobi, or the 

 flower of Saint James. 



The Senecio elegans may be raised from seeds, 

 sown with other hardy annuals in the spring, and 

 requires no peculiar care. 



The double one, which is merely a variety of the 

 same, is an extremely beautiful plant ; and although 

 it does not come within our limits as a hardy one, 

 we may be pardoned the union of it with its syno- 

 nymous species. It is usually cultivated in pots, as 

 an ornament for the house, yet few plants are better 

 adapted for giving assistance to the brilliancy of the 

 flower border, where, during the summer months, it 

 will grow with greater luxuriance and beauty than 

 in any other situation. 



It is a tender plant, and where there is not a 

 greenhouse protection, it may be kept during the 



