PLATE CCLXXIX. 



XERANTHEMUM FASCICULATUM. 



Far. floie alio. 



Bundle-leaved Everlafiing-flozver, 



White Far. 



CLASS XIX. ORDER II. 

 SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. 

 Calyx imbricatus, radiatus; radio colo- 

 rato. 



Receptacle chaffy. Feather briftly. Cup- 

 tiled, with a ray; the ray coloured. 

 See Xeranthemum speciosissimum, PI. LI. Vol.1. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Xeranthemum foliis caulinis linearibus, fub- 

 teretibus, falciculatis, longiflimis; floribus 

 folitariis ; Iquamis calycis lanceolatis, 

 albis. 



Everlafting- flower with the ftem-leaves linear, 

 roundifli, bundled, very long; flowers fo- 

 litary; fcales of the cup lance- fhaped and 

 white. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. An Hermaphrodite Floret, with its feed, magnified. 



2. A Female Floret, with its feed, magnified. 



3. The Pointal from a Female Floret, magnified. 



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As a fine variety of the Bundle-leaved Everlafiing flower, figured in this work, PI. 242 of this Vol.; 

 ■we now prelent this plant to our friends. Tis true, it may be thought by fame, at firft fight, there is 

 too confiderable a degree of fimilitude in the plants to deferve a particular plate for each ; but, upon a 

 nigh inveftigation, it will be found there exifl:s a ftronger marked dift'erence, in the growth of the 

 plants, than, at firll, meets the eye; not certainly enough to conllitute a fpecific difl^erence, but un- 

 doubtedly a ftrong variety. The flower (terns, in this, grow more ftraddling ; and the long ftem-leaves 

 are more difperled on the upper part of the plant; at thebafe they nearly refemblc each other. We 

 have our figure from the Clapham CoUeftion, to which the plants were introduced at the fame time, 

 and through the fame channel a."; the above cited fpecies; feeds of both having been feni from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Niven, in the year 1799- For all that relates to the management of this, 

 ■we mufl reler our readers to the figure juft alluded to; as its habits, time of flowering, &c. in 

 nothing differ. 



