194 COMPOSITE TAMILT. 



S. atireus, Golden Ragwort or Squaw-weed. Cottony when young, 

 becoming smooth with age, sometimes quite smooth when young, with simple 

 stems l°-3° high, root-leaves simple and in different varieties either round, 

 obovate, heart-shaped, oblong, or spatulate, crenate or cut-toothed, on slender 

 petioles, lower stem-leaves lyrate, upper ones sessile or clasping and cut-pin- 

 Batifid ; corymb umbel-like; rays 8-12. y, 



§ 2. Exotic species, cultivated for ornament from the Old World. 

 « EmIlia, or CAciLiA, of the older botanists, with no rays, but many orange- 

 red diskflowers in a very simple cup-like involucre : akenes with 5 acute 

 and hispid-ciliate angles. (T) 

 S. SOncllifdlia, Tassel-Flower : cult, as a summer annual, from India, 

 very smooth or a little bristly, pale or glaucous, l°-2° high, with root-leaves 

 obovate and petioled, stem-ldves sagittate and partly clasping, and rather showy 

 heads in a naked corymb, in summer. 



* * Heads with no rays and only 6-12 disk-flowers, small, yellow : stem extensivdy 



cliinbing, more or less twining. 



S. sc^ndens, cult, as house plant under the name of German Ivy, but is 

 from Cape of Good Hope, and resembles Ivy only in the leaves, which are 

 round-heart-shaped or angled and with 3-7 pointed lobes, soft and tender in 

 texture, and very smooth : the flowers seldom produced. 1). 



* « * Cineraria. Heads with rays and numerous disk-flowers : not climbers. 



t- Flowers all yellow. % 



S. Cineraria, or CinerXria MARfTuiA, of Mediterranean coast, an old- 

 fashioned house-plant, ash-white all over (whence the name Cineraria and the 

 popular one of Uusty Miller) with a woolly coating; the branching stems 

 somewhat woody at base ; leaves pinnately parted and the divisions mostly 

 sinuate-lobed ; the small heads in a dense corymb. 



S, Ksempferi, of Japan and China, is most probably the original of the 

 FARFiJoiDM grAnde, lately introduced into the gardens, where it hardly ever 

 flowers : it is cultivated for the foliage, the thick and smooth rounded and angled 

 rather kidney-shaped root-leaves blotched with white ; some of the flowers more 

 or less 2-lipped. y, 



*- -t- jRay-Jlowers purple, violet, blue, or varying to white, those of the disk of 

 similar colors or sometimes yellow. 



S. Hereti^ri, or CinbrXria lanXta, from Teneriffe, with woody base 

 to the stem, rounded heart-shaped 5 - 7-lobcd leaves on slender petioles, very 

 white-cottony beneath but soon smooth and green above, and peduncle bearing 

 solitary rather large head of purple flowers, is a less common house-plant than 

 the next. y. • 



S. cru^ntus, the Common Cineraria of the greenhouses, from Tene- 

 rifix;, is herbaceous, smoothish, with the heart-shaped and angled more or less 

 cut-toothed leaves green above and usually crimson or purple undsrneath, the 

 lower with wing-margined petioles dilated into clasping auricles at the base ; 

 heads numerous in a flat corymb, the handsome flowers purple, crimson, blue, 

 white, &c. y 



S. dlegans, Pdrple Ragwort, from Cape of Good Hope, a smooth herb, 

 with deeply pinnatifid leaves, the lower petioled, the upper with half clasping 

 base, the lobes oblong and often sinuate-toothed ; heads corymbed, with yellow 

 or purple disk-flowers and purple or rarely white rays. (T) And a fuU-douhle 

 variety, having the disk-flowers turned into rays, y 



31. ARITICA. (Old name, thought to be a coiTuption of Ptarmica.) The 

 common European species is used in medicine. The following probably has 

 shnilar properties, y 



A. nudieaMis, so called for the naked stem, which bears only 1 or 2 pairs 

 of small leaves, although 1° - 3° high, the main leaves being clustered at the 

 root, thickish, sessile, ovate or oblong, 3 - 5-nerved, mostly entire, hairy ; heads 

 several, loosely corymbed, pretty large and showy, in spying. Low pine-barrens 

 from S. Penn. S. 



