194 COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



S. atireus, GOLDEN RAGWORT or SQUAW-WEED. Cottony when young, 

 becoming smooth with age, sometimes quite smooth when young, with simple 

 stems l-3 high, root-leaves simple and in different varieties either round, 

 obovate, heart-shaped, oblong, or spatulate, crenate or cut-toothed, on slender 

 petioles, lower stem-leaves lyrate, upper ones sessile or clasping and cut-pin- 

 natitid; corymb umbel-like ; rays 8 -12. ^ 



2. Exotic species, cultivated for ornament from the Old World. 



* EMILIA, or CAC\LIA, of the older botanists, with no rays, but many orange- 



red disk-fluici-rs in a very simple cup-like involucre: akenes with. 5 acute 



and hisjiid-ciliate unyles. (V) 



S. sonchifblia, TASSKL-FLOWER: cult, as a summer annual, from India> 

 very smooth or a little bristly, pale or glaucous, l-2 high, with root-ieavei 

 obovate and petioled, stem-leaves sagittate and partly clasping, and rather showy 

 heads in a naked corymb, in summer. 



* * Heads with no rays and only G - 1 2 disk-flowers, small, yellow : stem cxtensictly 



climbiny, more or less twininy. 



S. scandens, cult, as house plant under the mime of GERMAN Ivv, but is 

 from Cape of Good Hope, and resembles Ivy only in the leaves, which arc 

 round-heart-shaped or angled and with 3 7 pointed lobes, soft and tender in 

 texture, and very smooth : the flowers seldom produced. ^ 



* * * CINERARIA. Heads ivith rays and numerous disk-flowers .- not climbers. 



- Flowers all yellow. If. 



S. Cineraria, or CINER.VRIA MAR/TIMA, of Mediterranean coast, an old- 

 fashioned house-plant, ash-white all over (whence the name Cineraria and the 

 popular one of DUSTY MILLER) with a woolly coating ; the branching stems 

 somewhat woody at base ; leaves pinnatelv parted and the divisions mostly 

 sinuate-lobed ; the small heads in a dense corymb. 



S. Kiempf eri, of Japan and China, is most probably the original of the 

 FARFfjoiUM GRANDE, lately introduced into the gardens, where it hardly ever 

 flowers : it is cultivated for the foliage, the thick and smooth rounded and angled 

 rather kidney-shaped root-leaves blotched with white; some of the flowers more 

 or less 2-lipped. JJ. 



*- - Ray-flowers purple, violet, blue, or varying to white, those of the disk oj 

 similar colors or sometimes yellow. 



S. Heretifcri, or CINERA.RIA LAN\TA, from Tcneriffe, with woody base 

 to the stem, rounded heart-shaped 5 - 7-lobed leaves on slender petioles, very 

 white-cottony beneath but soon smooth and green above, and peduncle bearing 

 solitary rather large head of purple flowers, is a less common house-plant tha.i 

 the next. ^ 



S. cru^ntus, the COMMON CINERARIA of the greenhouses, from Tcne- 

 riffe, is herbaceous, smoothish, with the heart-shaped and angled more or less 

 cut-toothed leaves green above and usually crimson or purple underneath, the 

 lower with wing-margined petioles dilated into clasping auricles at the base; 

 heads numerous in a flat corymb, the handsome flowers purple, crimson, blue, 

 white, &c. y. 



S. elegans, PURPLE RAGWORT, from Cape of Good Hope, a smooth herb, 

 with deeply pinnatitid leaves, the lower petioled, the upper with half clasping 

 h.iM-, the lobes oblong and often sinuate-toothed ; heads eoryinbed, with yellow 

 or purple disk-flowers and purple or rarely white ravs. (\) And a full-double 

 variety, having the disk-flowers turned into rays. 2/ 



31. ARNICA. (Old name, thought to be a corruption of Ptnrmica.) The 

 common European species is used in medicine. The following probably has 

 similar properties. 2/ ?hfe*0U4 SWw^rf.&l^, M $+~+i^ /t) 6 

 A. nudicatllis, so called for the naked stem, which bears only 1 <>r '2 pairs 

 efwull leaves, although 1-.T J hi^li, the main leaves being clustered at the, 

 root, thickUh, sessile, ovate or oblong, 3-5-nerved, mostly entire, hairy ; heads 

 several, loosely corymbed, pretty large and showy, in .spring. Low pine barrens 

 S. Penn. S. 



