XLII. COMPO’SITEH: BA’CCHARIS. 547 
Derivati From Bacchus, wine; i of the vinous odour of its root. Pliny says the root 
smells of cinnamon: but as the ancients sometimes boiled down their wines, and mixed them with 
spices, these wines may have had an odour similar to that of the root of the baccharis. 
Gen. Char., §c. Heads many-flowered, dicecious. Corolla homogamous, tubular. 
Receptacle naked, seldom subpaleaceous. Involucrum subhemispherical, or 
oblong, in many series, imbricated. Corollas of the male flowers 5-cleft, 
dilated at the throat ; anthers exserted, tailless; style more or less abor- 
tive. Corolla of the female flowers filiform, subtruncate ; style bifid, exserted ; 
anthers wanting. Achenia generally furrowed, or ribbed. Pappus pilose, of 
the male in one series, of the female in one or many series. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous; oblong lanceolate, 
notched, serrated, or entire. Flowers terminal. — Shrubs, of short duration ; 
natives of North America ; of common culture and propagation. 
gs 1. B. Hauimiro'Lia L. The Sea-Purslane-leaved Baccharis, or the 
Groundsel Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1204.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 3. p. 1915. 
Synonyme. Senécio arboréscens Hort. Kew. 
Engravings. Schmidt Baum., t. 82.; Du Ham. Arb., t. 35.; and our 
Jig. 1018. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves obovate, crenately notched 
on the terminal portion. (Willd.) A large rambling 
shrub. Maryland to Florida, on the sea coast. Height 
8ft. to 10ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white, 
with a tint of purple, and resembling those of the 
groundsel, but larger ; September to November. 
Chiefly remarkable for the glaucous hue of its 
leaves, in consequence of the whole plant being co- 
vered with a whitish powder. Its general appearance 
accords with that of the genus A’triplex, and the 
shrubs of both families are, accordingly, well calcu- 
lated for being grouped together. Baccharis Aali- 
mifolia will grow in any common soil which is 
tolerably dry, attaining the height of 6 or 8 feet in 
3 or 4 years; and forming a large, loose-headed, 
robust-looking bush, of from 10 ft. to 12 ft. in height, 
and 12 or 15 feet in diameter, in 10 years. Cut- 
tings, in dry soil and an open situation. 
1018. Bbccharls halimifdlia. 
= 2. B, (#.) aneustiro‘tia Pursh, The narrow-leaved Baccharis, or 
Ploughman’s Spikenard. 
Tene gid, Gon pepeciaiee in the Lambertian herbarium, 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves narrow, linear, entire. Panicle com- 
pound, many-flowered. Involucre small. (Pursh.) A sub- 
evergreen shrub, of less vigorous growth, and somewhat 
more tender, than the preceding species. Carolina to 
Florida, on the sea coast, and on the banks of the Mississippi. 
Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1812. Flowers white; July 
to September. 
Neither the flowers nor the leaves of this or the preceding 
species can be said to be either beautiful or ornamental; partly 
because they, as well as the seeds, bear a strong general re- b 
semblance to the leaves, flowers, and seeds of the common 19, 2.(%) an-, 
groundsel, a weed of tiresome occurrence in gardens, and with 
which all our associations are the reverse of those of rarity or elegance. 
Add also that groundsel trees can hardly be considered as truly ligneous plants, 
for which reason we consider them wanting in that dignity of character which 
belongs to all plants truly woody. 
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