supplementm^ to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 375 



Wells's Fanny, upper petals purplish pink ; lower, paler ; spots 

 white and red. Diversum, upper petals rose ; lower, blush. 

 Miss Annesley like diversum, with larger spots. — J. D. 

 CLXX. 'E^ricdcece. 



133. iJHODODE'NDRON nudiflbrum D. Don ; 521. AzMea 4347. nudiflura Loudon's Hort. Brit. 



[iJhodod^ndron arbbreum $ 1829 L p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.291 

 var. exfraium D. Bon choice * spl 3 ? ap C Eng. hybrid Azalea nudiflOra coccinea major 9, 



Raised by Mr. Wm. Smith, Norbiton Common, near Kings- 

 ton, in 1829, from seeds from flowers of Azalea nudiflora coc- 

 cinea major, to which pollen of i^hododendron arb5reum had 

 been applied ; " and, except in its evergreen leaves and decan- 

 drous [10-stamened] flowers, it agrees ahnost entirely with the 

 former species [Azalea nudiflora], having less aflinity with arbo- 

 reum than any of the other hybrids from that species which we 

 [Mr. D. Don] have seen. The plant appears to be quite hardy, 

 is readily multiplied by layers, and, from the beauty of its 

 flowers, is well deserving of a place in every garden." [British 

 Flower-Gai-den, June.) 



ifhodod(5ndron arbbreum var. venustum D. Don should be the name, rather than iJhododendron 

 venfistumZ). Don, of the kind on which we have quoted particulars under the latter name in 

 p. 297. Mr. D. Don has authorised this change in the words : — 



" . . . . We inadvertently omitted to mark it as a variety; and 

 we have, therefore, to request our readers to alter the name to 

 R. arboreum venustum, it being far from our intention to attempt 

 to elevate these garden productions to the rank of species." 

 [Brit. Flotiier-Garde7i, June.) 



CLXXXVI. Comjp6sit(je^ subtribe Giiaphaliece. 



CRASPE^DI A Lessing. {Kraspedo}i, a fringe ; in allusion, probably, to the appearance of the 



pappus. — Hooker.) ]9. 5. Sp. 1. — 



[Wellington in Van Diemen's Land 1834. S s ? I ? Bot. mag. 3415 

 macroc^phala Hooker lurge-headed-inflorescenced £. JSi or ^ or 1^ ... Ysh.W Mount 



A hoary colour pervades the leaves and stem, which are 

 clothed with appressed silky hairs. Leaves alternate; lower 

 ones spathulate, merging, successively, upwards, into a linear- 

 oblong figure and smaller size : " the whole appearance of the 

 foliage is similar to that of Ammobium alatum, but of a more 

 bluish green." Stem 18 in. or more high, not branched, bear- 

 ing at its summit a single large head of flowers that is nearly 

 globose, and, in the figure, is shown to be 2 in. or more across ; 

 its colour is described to be " dirty yellowish white; " of which 

 colour must also be the flowers that compose the head. An in- 

 volucre of several bracteate leaves is subtended at its base. This 

 head is constituted of numerous smaller headlets (capitula), each 

 of about five flowers, and surrounded by about five lanceolate 

 membranaceous scales. Corollas funnel-shaped, the tube remark- 

 ably slender. Down of the seed of about fourteen bristles, which 

 are beautifully feathery. Mr. Curtis, the proprietor of the Bo- 

 tanical Magazine^ nurseryman, Glazenwood, Essex, raised this 



