SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Cineraria. U3 



Perennial. August. 



Root creeping. Whole plant smooth. Stein round, leafy, nearly 

 filled with pith. Leaves numerous, crowded, sessile, linear-ob- 

 long, extremely succulent, mostly with 3 blunt teeth at the end. 

 JF7. terminal, few, solitary, on stalks clothed with awl-shaped 

 bracteas. Cal. of many smooth, flat, taper-pointed scales. Disk 

 orange- coloured. Rays spreading, of a golden yellow. Seed- 

 down rough. 



402. CINERARIA. Flea-wort. 



Linn. Gen. 426. Juss.lS]. Fl.Br.894. Lam.t.675. Gcertn. 

 t. 170. 



Nat. Ord. see iu 396. 



Common Cal. simple, cylindrical, of numerous, equal, pa- 

 rallel, permanent scales. Cor. compound, radiant \Jlorets 

 of the disk numerous, perfect, tubular, with 5 equal up- 

 right segments ; those of the radius as many as the scales 

 of the calyx, ligulate, elliptic-oblong, toothed at the ex- 

 tremity. Filam. in the tubular florets only, thread- 

 shaped, short. Anth. in a cylindrical tube, with 5 notches 

 at the summit. Germ, in all the florets fertile, oblong. 

 Stifle thread-shaped, not prominent. Stigmas spreading, 



' oblong, bluntish. Seed-vessel none, except the unchanged 

 calyx. Seed quadrangular, striated. Doiim copious, 

 sessile, capillary, roughish, longer than the seed. Recept. 

 naked, pitted, slightly convex. 



Downy or cottony herbs, sometimes shrubby, more nume- 

 rous in Southern Africa than elsewhere. Leaves simple, 

 oblong or heart-shaped, entire or toothed, sometimes ly- 

 rate, or bipinnate. Fl. corymbose, or panicled, or soli- 

 tary ; yellow or purple ; .some of them white in the ra- 

 dius ; some discoid only. 



1. C palustris. Marsh Flea-wort. 



Flowers coi-ymbose. Leaves broadly lanceolate, toothed or 

 sinuated. Stem shaggy, leafy, hollow. 



C. palustris. Linn. Sp. PI. 1243. Willd. v. 3. 2080. H. Br. 894. 



Engl.Bot.v.3.t.\5l. Huds. \86. Fl. Dan. t. 573. 

 Othonna palustris. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 924. Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 302. 



Huds. ed. J . 327. 

 Solidago n. 131. Gmel. Sih. v. 2. 158. t.72. 

 Conyza foliis laciniatis. Raii S?jn. 174. Ger. Em. 483./. 

 C. helenitis foliis laciniatis. Lob. Ic. 347. f. 

 Jacobaea aquatica elatior, foliis magis dissectis. Moris, v. 3. 110. 



sect. 7. t.\9.f. 24. 



