February 25, 1891.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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Fig. 19. — Ancient Plane-tree in Constantinople. — See page 85. 



•Cineraria Petasites, and in 1813 it was figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine under that name. It is an evergreen shrub of bold 

 habit ; the cylindrical stems robust and erect, and from three 

 to four feet high ; the leaves alternate, circular, with sinu- 

 ously lobed margin, cordate at the base, dark green above and 



pale green beneath, and from six to twelve inches broad, with 

 petioles as long as the blades are wide. These parts of the 

 plant are all more or less downy. The flowers, each a trifle 

 more than an inch across, with the disk-florets brownish, and 

 those of the ray of a bright yellow color, are produced inenor- 



