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flowers truncate, and penciled at apex. Achenia beakless, wingless, nearly 

 terete, and sulcately angular. Pappus pilose, in many series, caducous ; 

 bristles erect, nearly equal, very slender, scarcely scabrous. Herbs or 

 shrubs, very variable in habit. * Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, co- 

 rymbose, or panicled. Ligulae of heads yellow, rarely purple or white ; 

 the disks usually yellow. (G. Don.^) 



Leaves simple, apparently compound, alter- 

 nate, exstipulate, evergreen ; pinnatifid. Flowers 

 terminal. A sutfruticose bush, native of the 

 South of Europe. 



n 1. S. CINERARIA Dec. The Cineraria-like 

 Senecio, or Sea Ragwort. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 6. p. 355. j Sweet Hort. Brit, ed. 3. 



p. 384. 

 Synonymes. Cineraria maritima Lin. Sp. 1244; Jacoba^a ma- 



ritima Bonp. ; Sicilian Ragwort ; Cineraire, Fr. ; Meerstrands 



Aschenpflanze, Gcr. ; Cenerina, Ital. 

 Engravings. Flor. Gra;c., t. 871. j and our fig. 1025. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves pinnatifid, tomentose be- 

 neath ; the lobes obtuse, and each consisting of 

 about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles. 

 Involucre tomentose. (JVil/d.) A suffru- 

 tescent bush, remarkable for the white mealy 

 aspect of its rambling branches and foliage. South of Europe, on the 

 sea coast and on rocks. Height 3 ft. to 4* ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers 

 yellow, ragwort-like ; June to August. 



Unless planted in very dry soil, it is liable to be killed to the ground in se- 

 vere winters ; but such is the beauty of its whitish, large, and deeply sinuated 

 foliage, at every season of the year, that it well deserves a place on rockwork 

 or against a wall, where it may be associated with Solanum marginatum, and 

 any other ligneous whitish-leaved species of that genus. 



GENUS VII. 



1025. S. Cineraria. 



MUTI'S/,4 Cav. 



THE MUTISIA. Lin. Syst. 

 Superflua. 



Syngenesia Polygamia 



Identification. Lin. til. Sup. Plant. ; Dec. Prod., 7, p. 4. ; Cav. Icon., 5. p. 64. ; Hook. Bot. Misc., 



1. p. 7. 

 Derivation. Named by Linnaeus after his learned friend and correspondent, Don Jose Celestino 



Mutts, chief of the botanical expedition to New Grenada. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Heads heterogamous, unequal-flowered. Involucre of many 

 series of flat imbricated scales ; outer ones shorter. Receptacle naked. 

 Flowers of the disk hermaphrodite, those of the ray female. Corollas bila- 

 biate, the tube 5 10 15-nerved; those on the disk rather tubular, the 

 throat not distinct from the tube; outer lip of the limb tridentate, inner 

 one bipartite : the outer lip of the ray flowers large, ligula-formed, and 

 tridentate at apex ; under one bipartite, with linear lobes. Anthers wanting 

 in the ray flowers ; those in the disk exserted, long-tailed. Style cylindrical, 

 bifid. Achenia beaked, ribbed, long, and glabrous ; the paleae being confer- 

 ruminated at the base, fall off altogether or in one piece. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple or apparently compound, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; 

 entire or serrated ; the common petiole usually drawn out at the end into a 

 tendril. Flowers purple, rose-coloured, or yellow. Climbing shrubs, 

 natives of South America, requiring the protection of a wall in the climate 

 of London. 



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