A NEW SENECIO HYBRID 408 
the hybrid. A fuller statement of its distinctive characters and of 
those of the parent species will now be given. At this stage the 
necessity of naming the plant presents itself, and the questions 
Jacobea occur in the Italian island, they appear there under con- 
ditions highly unfavourable to the production of a natural hybrid. 
The habitat of the first species is given In the Florula (p. 74) as 
‘in rupestribus littoreis”’: the second is set down as very rare, an 
occurring (only as a variety of the type) 
while the authors state that they have not seen the plant in 
We have had no opportunity of comparing the form é of our Dalkey 
ns 0 ic 
none in Kew j 
the plants be identical. So widely, however, 
form a of our hybrid differ from the figu 
it seems to deserve a distinctive na 
albescens being apparently unappropr 
Cineraria and Senecio, we venture to propos 
Irish hybrid the name x Senecio albescens. 
atement of the distinctive ee “ S. 
lb and of its parents is founded on an examination of nu- 
sonny fresh and dried specimens of all three plants, of which 
fairly typical examples are reproduced in the plate accompanying 
this paper :— 
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