1080 CINERARIA. | CLASS XIX, ORDER II. 
GENUS XXXVII. CINERA'RIA.—Linn. Flea-wort. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tm. Juss. 
Gren. Cuar. Involucrum cylindrical, of numerous erect equal scales. 
florets yellow, those of the ray ligulate. Receptacle naked. 
Fruit suleated. Pappus hairy—Name cineres, ashes; so called 
from the ashen colour of the under side of the leaves of some of 
the species. 
1. C. palus'tris, Linn. (Fig. 1282.) Marsh Flea-wort. Villous, stem 
hollow, much branched, the branches corymbose at the end ; leaves 
broadly lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul, the lower ones sinuato- 
dentate. 
English Botany, t. 151.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 444.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed, 4. vol. i. p. 305.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 147. 
Root long deep fibres, the whole plant of a light greyish green 
colour, clothed with soft jointed hairs, clammy to the touch. Stem 
erect, about three feet high, much branched, hollow, angular, leafy, 
and as well as the branches terminating in a corymbose cluster of 
bright yellow flowers, each on a very shaggy peduncle. Jnvolucre of 
pale green lanceolate shaggy scales, erect, all of equal length. Florets 
numerous, those of the ray with a short ovate spreading limb, of the 
disk tubular, five toothed, Fruit small, ovate, furrowed. Pappus 
long, snow white, abundant. 
Habitat—Margins of pools, ditches, and marshy places, especially 
in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. 
Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 
2. C. campes'tris, Retz. (Fig. 1283.) Field Flea-wort. Woolly, 
stem simple, terminating in a simple umbel; radical leaves ovate, or 
sub-rotundate, contracted into a short petiole, nearly entire, the upper 
lanceolate, sessile; involucre smooth above, woolly at the base; fruit 
hispid. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 305.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 
147.—C. integrifolia, Withering.—English Botany, t. 152.—English 
Flora, vol. iii. p. 445. 
Root of long fibres, the whole plant more or less thickly clothed 
with loose cobweb-like pubescence, most abundant on the under side 
of the leaves. Stem erect, simple, about eight inches high, round, 
striated, woolly, terminating in a simple umbel, of a few yellow 
flowers, each on a shaggy peduncle, and accompanied at the base 
with a lanceolate bractea. Leaves numerous at the base of the stem, 
ovate or sub-rotundate, entire or crenated, mostly contracted at the 
base into a short broad footstalk, those of the stem not very nume- 
rous, lanceolate, sessile, all with a loose thin layer of cottony cobweb- 
like pubescence above, but beneath it is much thicker. Involuere 
scales lanceolate, nearly smooth above, woolly at the base. Florets 
