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sinuate ; earlets subdecurrent. Root-leaves larger than the 

 rest, stiffer, smoother, obovate,with red veins, widely serrate, 

 and waved between the serratures ; stem erect, stiff, a foot 

 high, reddish, hairy, branched ; the branches erect, simple ; 

 ftowexs from the top of the stem, peduncled, scattered in 

 various ways; florets minute, white, with minute linear rays; 

 pistils very long, erect. The scent is that of Stachys Foetida, 

 but more pleasant. Native of moistish places in the East 

 Indies. 



25. Conyza Inuloides ; Cluster-flowered Fleabane. Leaves 

 cuneiform-linear, obtuse, notch-toothletted, smooth ; stem 

 shrubby ; unthcne two-bristled. Stem proliferous, dichoto- 

 mous, smooth; calix purplish ; flowers yellow. Native of the 

 island of Teneriffe. This plant may be kept in a green-house, 

 stove, or under a glass-case. 



26. Cooyza Sericea ; Snowy Fleabane. Leaves linear-fili- 

 form ; they and the stems tomentose silky; flowers panicled. 

 This is easily known by the silky whiteness of the branches, 

 leaves, and peduncles, and by its yellow flowers. The bark and 

 wood have an acrid pungent taste; and the inhabitants of the 

 Canary Islands, where it naturally grows, use it in the tooth- 

 ache. It may be kept in a green-house, dry-stove, or glass-case. 



27. Conyza ^Egyptiaca ; Egyptian Fleabane. Leaves 

 oblong-spatulate, toothed, hairy > flowers subpanicled, globu- 

 lar ; calicine leaflets subulate, soft. Stem erect, a foot and 

 a half in height, somewhat striated, pubescent, and some- 

 what viscid ; branches from the upper axils ; flowers termi- 

 nating, four or five, roundish, on purple peduncles; corollas 

 yellow, with minute florets, naked in the ray, and very abun- 

 dant ; pistils yellow, quickly vanishing, surrounding the disk 

 with a kind of broad downy ring. It flowers in July, is 

 annual, and a native of Egypt. This must be propagated 

 from seeds. 



28. Conyza Rugosa ; St. Helena Fleabane. Shrubby : 

 leaves wedge-shaped, serrate, villose, wrinkled, netted ; pe- 

 duncles villose, one-flowered ; flowers radiate. It flowers in 

 November ; and is a native of the island of St. Helena. It 

 requires protection in our climate. 



29. Conyza Incisa; Ear-leaved Fleabane. Leaves ovate, 

 subcordate, hairy-viscid, toothed, ared at the base ; disk 

 of the rceptacle honey-combed. It flowers from June till 

 August, and is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. It may 

 be kept in a green-house or dry-stove. 



30. Conyza Patula ; Spreading Fleabane. Leaves elliptic, 

 serrate, villose underneath ; calices subglobular ; leaflets lan- 

 ceolate-subulate ; branches spreading. Annual : stem taper, 

 herbaceous, a foot and a half in height, covered lightly with 

 a mealy down, and branching out almost the whole length ; 

 corollas purple. The flowers appear in July, and there is a 

 continual succession till the cold of autumn puts a stop to 

 them. Native of the northern parts of China. The seeds 

 of this species should be sown upon a moderate hot-bed in 

 the beginning of April : when the plants are fit to remove, 

 they should be transplanted into a fresh hot-bed, observing 

 to shade them from the sun till they have taken fresh root. 

 In June they may be gradually hardened to the open air, and 

 part of them may be planted in wafm borders, where they 

 will flower, and, if the season prove warm, ripen their seeds; 

 but it will be prudent to keep some plants in pots, placed in 

 an airy glass-case, in order to secure good seeds. 



SI. Conyza Tomentosa; Rough Fleabane. Arborescent : 

 leaves oblong-ovate, tomentose, cinerous underneath; flowers 

 terminating, on branching peduncles. It rises with a woody 

 stalk, ten or twelve feet high, dividing into many branches, the 

 hark of which is covered with a brown nap ; leaves alternate 

 m short petioles ; flowers in loose spikes, ranged on one side ; 



they are white, and are succeeded by long flat seeds. Native 

 of La Vera Cruz in New Spain. 



32. Conyza Salicifolia; Willow-leaved Fleabane. Leaves 

 linear, decurrent, serrate; flowers corymbed, terminating, 

 on branching peduncles. This has a perennial root, from 

 which spring several upright stalks, three feet high. The 

 flowers are produced at the end of the stalks in round 

 bunches ; they are small, and of a purple colour, and are 

 succeeded by oblong flat seeds. Native of La Vera Cruz in 

 New Spain. 



33. Conyza Corymbosa ; Clustered Fleabane. Arbores- 

 cent : leaves lanceolate ; flowers corymbed, terminating on 

 branching peduncles. Stem strong, woody, fourteen or six- 

 teen feet high, covered with an ash-coloured bark, and divided 

 at top into many woody branches ; leaves alternate, on short 

 petioles. The branches are terminated by roundish bunches 

 of white flowers, on long peduncles, several together. Sent 

 from La Vera Cruz. 



34. Conyza Viscosa ; Clammy Fleabane. Herbaceous : 

 leaves ovate, serrate, villose ; flowers both axillary and ter- 

 minating. This is an annual plant, growing in low moist 

 places, where the water stands in winter. It has an herba- 

 ceous branching stalk, one foot high, with one oval sessile 

 leaf at each joint, covered with a white hairy down. The 

 flowers are produced from the side of the branches, on slen- 

 der petioles, each for the most part sustaining three flowers, 

 which are white, and succeeded by chaffy seeds. Native of 

 La Vera Cruz. This plant will sometimes ripen its seeds in 

 England, if the autumn prove favourable, but it has little 

 beauty to recommend it. The seeds of the other natives of 

 South America must be procured from that country ; and being 

 long upon their passage, will rarely vegetate in the first year. 



35. Conyza Symphytifolia; Comfrey -leaved Fleabane: 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, scabrous ; flowers racemed, terminat- 

 ing; stem herbaceous. Root perennial ; stem three feet high, 

 terminated by branching peduncles, each sustaining several 

 yellow flowers, not much unlike those of the common sort: 

 leaves from four to five inches long, and one and a half broad 

 in the middle, rough like those of Comfrey. Native of La 

 Vera Cruz. 



36. Conyza Scandens ; Climbing Fleabane. Leaves lance- 

 olate, scabrous, nerved, sessile; racemes recurved ; flowers 

 ascending: peduncles lateral; stem shrubby, climbing. This 

 has a climbing shrubby stalk, fourteen or sixteen feet high, 

 dividing into many branches ; leaves the size of those of the 

 Hay-tree, and full as thick in their texture, having as many 

 deep transverse nerves, running from the midrib to the sides, 

 and of a pale green colour ; flowers large and white, pro- 

 duced in long spikes ranged on the upper side only, from the 

 side of the branches, and pointing upwards. Sent from La 

 Vera Cruz. This plant makes a fine appearance in the stove 

 while in flower ; and, retaining its leaves all the year, makes 

 an agreeable variety among other tender plants. 



37. Conyza Trinervia; Three-leaved Fleabane. Leaves 

 ovate, smooth, three-nerved, quite entire, sessile ; flowers in 

 spikes, terminating. Stem shrubby, six or seven feet high, 

 dividing; into several woody branches ; flowers white, suc- 

 ceeded by oblong flat seeds. Native of Carthagena in New 

 Spain. 



38. Conyza Uniflora ; One-flowered Fleabane. Le;nrs 

 lanceolate, acute, sessile ; flowers solitary, lateral ; calices 

 coloured; stein shrubby, branching. Stalk shrubby, eight or 

 ten feet high, dividinginto manylong slender branches : le;i\ rs 

 three inches long, and three quarters of an inch broad in the 

 middle ; the smaller branches are set with very narrow, 

 oblong, pointed leaves, which grow close to the stalks; and at 



