Herbaceous 
“7 PLATE CCCCLXXXVII. . 
: XERANTHEMUM HERBACEUM. 
Eternal Flower. 
CELASSacix. -ORDER- HE. 
ReEcEPTACULUM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pap- 
pus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus, 
radio colorato, 
SPECIFIC 
XeERANTHEMUM herbaceum: foliis amplexicaue - 
libus, oblongis, margine reyolutis, Jana alba 
tectis: floribus terminalibus, solitariis, pal- 
lide aurantiis, nitidissimis ; squamee inferze 
fulvescentes. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous 
' : Pointals. 
a | ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Feather bristly. 
Empalement tiled, rayed, the ray co- 
loured. 
CHARACTER. 
XERANTHEMUM with an herbaceous stem: leaves 
embracing the stem, oblong, rolled back - 
at the edges, and covered with a white 
wool: flowers terminate the branches 
singly, are of a pale gold colour, and very 
shining : the lower scales are of a foxy tint. 
a 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. One of the radiating scales. 
. 2. A floret of the disk, 
3. The chives and pointal. 
4. Leaf of a variety. 
Tus handsome species of Xeranthemum may Be regarded as truly herbaceous, as the. plant not only 
dies down annually, but even whilst livin 
The 
are two varieties ; 
vested of it, and of a rich green colour ; 
g keeps constantly sending up fresh shoots from the ne 
white appearance of the leaves is owing to their being enveloped by a kind of wool: but ie 
the one whose foliage is almost without this woolly coat, and the other entirely di- 
but in every other particular the plants are all exactly alike. 
Our figure was made from a small plant in fine flower in the conservatory of G, Hibbert, esq. 
