= PLATE CCCXXVII. « ae 
XERANTHEMUM ARGENTEUM 
Silvery Everlafting-Flower. 
CLASS XIX. ORDER IL. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Tips wnited. Superfluous Pointals. 
“i ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
RecEPTACULUM paleaceum, Pappus fetaceus. 
ReceprTacce chaffy. _ Feather briftly. Cup 
Calyx imbricatus, radiatus; radio colorato. 
tiled, rayed; ray coloured. 
See XER Ie > V.I. PLL. 
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: SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Xeranthemum fruticofum; foliis lanceolatis, ca- 
rinatis, fericeis; floribus paniculatis, ar- 
genteis. 
Everlafting-flower with a fhrubby ftem; leaves 
lance-fhaped, keeled, and filky; flowers 
grow in panicles, and filvery. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. An hermaphrodite Floret, natural fize. 
2, The fame, magnified. 
3. An inner fcale of the Empalement. 
4. The Receptacle, cleared of the fcales and florets. 
5. A female Floret, magnified. 
6. The Pointal of the above, natural fize. 
7. The fame magnified. 
Tuis new fpecies of Everlafting-flower was introduced to us, at the fame time, with the X. fpirale 
_ of this work, Pl. CCLXII. by Montague Burgoyne, Esq. of Mark Hall, Effex, in the year papers 
‘is a quick growing plant, and has flowered for the firft time laft April, when our drawing was oe or 
‘The flower ftems grow to the length of eighteen inches, or more; and the buds, upon their 
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appearance, have a fine tint of fleth colour, which, however, totally difappears upon the expanfion 
of the flower. It is propagated by cuttings, feeds, (which ripen in this country »).oF by panne 
branches at the root, as it makes many from.one bafe, which are eafily feparated by pafling : ag 
between them. It thrives beft in fandy peat with a {mall portion of loam, and mutt be kep 
airy, dry part of the greenhoufe. 
