304 CASSINIA CASSIOPE 



C. FULVIDA, Hooker fit. 



(Diplopappus chrysophyllus, Koehne?) 



An evergreen, dense-habited shrub up to 6 ft. in height, with erect branches, 

 viscid when young, and clothed with a yellowish down. Leaves very crowded 

 on the branches, \ to \ in. long, ^ to ^ in. wide ; narrowly oblong-obovate, the 

 margins recurved ; dark green, smooth and slightly viscid above, yellowish 

 downy beneath. Flower-heads very small and numerous, white, forming 

 terminal corymbs I to 3 ins. across. Blossoms in July. 



Native of New Zealand, where it occurs up to 3500 ft. It is an interesting, 

 rather heath-like shrub, with a tawny yellow aspect when the branches are bent 

 over, but of no great value as an ornament. It is closely allied to C. leptophylla, 

 differing chiefly in the yellower under-surface of the leaves, in the more 



flutinous character of the young branches, and in having no scales among the 

 orets, or perhaps one or two only. 



C. LEPTOPHYLLA. R. Brown. 



An evergreen, heath-like shrub, 4 ft. or more high, with erect, slender 

 branchlets, not viscid, but clothed with a dense greyish down. Leaves \ to \ in. 

 long, 2\r to j^ in. wide, linear, or slightly wider towards the end ; smooth, dark 

 green above, covered beneath with white or yellowish down. Flower-heads 

 white, very small and numerous, forming terminal corymbs I to 2 ins. across. 

 Blossoms in August and September. 



Native of New Zealand ; very similar to C. fulvida, but paler beneath the 

 leaves. The whole plant has a whiter cast. It differs also in having the disk 

 (or receptacle) on which the florets are borne furnished with numerous scales ; 

 nor is it quite so hardy. 



C. VAUVILLIERSII, Hooker fi 7. 



(Diplopappus Vauvilliersii, HorL") 



An evergreen shrub 2 to 6 ft. high, with erect branchlets, clothed with a 

 tawny yellow, or yellowish white, down. Leaves j to ^ in. long, -jV to in. 

 wide ; linear-obovate, round at the end, tapering at the base ; dark green and 

 smooth above, of the same colour as the branches beneath : margins recurved. 

 Flower-heads white, very small and numerous, in terminal rounded corymbs 

 I to 2 ins. across. 



Native of New Zealand, and very similar in general aspect to the two 

 preceding, but with larger leaves, less bushy and more elongated shoots. 

 The receptacle on which the florets are borne has numerous scales. In my 

 experience this species does not flower so freely as the two previous ones. 



CASSIOPE. ERICACEAE. 



A group of some ten or twelve species of dwarf, evergreen shrubs, with 

 a dense overlapping arrangement of the leaves similar to that of the 

 common heather. Flowers solitary, bell-shaped, white or pink. They 

 are found in Arctic or mountain regions of the northern hemisphere. 

 None of the four species here mentioned is very common, although they 

 have long been known in gardens. They are capable of withstanding 

 intense cold, but do not thrive particularly well in the open in the south 

 of England; they need cooler and moister conditions, and miss more 



