PLATE CCXLII. 



XERANTHEMUM FASCICULATUM. 



Bundled-leaved Everla/iiiig-Jiower. 



CLASS XIX. ORDER IL 

 SVNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Poiutals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. 

 Calyx imbricatus, radiatus; radio colorato. 



Receptacle chaflFy. Feather briftly. Cup tiled, 

 rayed ; the ray colored. 



SeeXERANTHEMUM SPECIOCISSIMUM, PI. LI.Vol. I. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Xeranthemum foliis caulinis lineaiibus fub- 

 teretibus, fafciculatis, longiffimis; florlbus 

 folitariis; fquamis calycinis lanceolatis, 

 pallide-luleis. 



Everlafting-flower, with the flem leaves linear, 

 roundifli, bundled, verj'long; flowers foli- 

 tary; the fcales of the cup lance-ihaped, 

 and pale yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A fcale of the cup. 



2. An hermaphrodite floret, with its feed, magnified. 



3. A female floret, with its feed, magnified. 



4. The Pointal of a female floret, magnified. 



Amongst the number of very beautiful plants introduced by Mr. Niven, and which now enrich that 

 fund of botanical rarity, the Clapham colleiSlion, this fpecies of Xeranthemum does not fland the leaft 

 confpicuous. Twelve years fince we poffelled but four fpecies of this genus, viz. X. fulgidum, 

 X. retortum, X. vellitum, and X. fptciocillimumj now they extend to fourteen. The others, as well 

 as the foregoing, are all (but one, the X. lucidum of Port Jackfon, New South Wales) from the Cape of 

 Good Ho[.)e, and introduced to us from thence, by various hands, in the following order; X. prolife- 

 rum, through Holland, by Mdfrs. Lee and Kennedy; X. formofum and X. candicans by the fame, from 

 Cape feeds; X. fellamoides by Mrs. Gortling, of Hounflow; X. filiforme by Mr. Dunn, of Canibrirlo-e. 

 X fafciculalum and X. truncatura by G. Hibbert, Efq. X. argenteum and X. fpirale by Montague 

 Burgoyne, Efc]. of Mark Hall, ElTex. They are very fubjeft to damp in the leaves, from a confined air- 

 therefore, fliould be kept in ihe window, or moft airy part of the greenhoufe. The mod fandy peat 

 that can be procured is the bell for their growth. They may be all, thus, propagated by cuttings, 

 taken off in the early part of the month of June; put thefe into a pot filled with fanJ, and covered 

 by a bell-glafs the fize of the pot; plunge it in a north or eafl border, and let the whole be covered with 

 a hand glafs, which muft be kept quite clofe till the cuttings are rooted; then the inner glafs muft be 

 removed, and in about a week the pot maybe taken from under the outer one, when die plants may 

 be removed into fmall pots in about a fortnight. Our prefent plant feldoni grows higher than two 

 feet, of which, at lead, one is the foot-fl.alks of the flowers; it continues in flower from March till 

 September. 



