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flowers truncate, and penciled at apex. Achenia beakless, wingless, nearly 
terete, and sulcately angular. Pappus pilose, in many series, caducous ; 
bristles erect, nearly equal, very slender, scarcely scabrous.— Herbs or 
shrubs, very variable in habit. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, co- 
rymbose, or panicled. Ligule of heads yellow, rarely purple or white; 
the disks usually yellow. (G. Don.) ny 
Leaves simple, apparently compound, alter- ‘ 
nate, exstipulate, evergreen; pinnatifid, Flowers 
terminal.— A suffruticose bush, native of the 
South of Europe. 
» 1. S. Cinera‘ria Dec. The Cineraria-like 
Senecio, or Sea Ragwort. 
Adentifeation: Dec. Prod., 6. p.355.; Sweet Hort, Brit., ed. 3. 
Synonymes. Cineradria maritima Lin. Sp. 1244; Jacobe‘a ma- 
ritima Bonp.; Sicilian Ragwort ; Cinéraire, Fr.; Meerstrands 
Aschenpflanze, Ger. ; Cenerina, Ital. 
Engravings. Flor. Grec., t.871.; and our fig. 1025, 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves pinnatifid, tomentose be- 
neath; the lobes obtuse, and each consisting of 
about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles. 
Involucre tomentose. (Willd.) A suffru- Goss Seca 
tescent bush, remarkable for the white mealy 
aspect of its rambling branches and foliage. South of Europe, on the 
sea coast andonrocks. Height 3ft.to4ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers 
yellow, ragwort-like; June to August. 
Unless planted in very dry soil, it is liable to be killed to the ground in se- 
vere winters ; but such is the beauty of its whitish, large, and deeply sinuated 
foliage, at every season of the year, that it well deserves a place on rockwork 
or against a wall, where it may be associated with Solanum marginitum, and 
any other ligneous whitish-leaved species of that genus. 
Genus VII. 
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MUTI’SIA Cav. Tuer Mutisia. Lin. Syst. Syngenésia Polygamia 
Supérflua. 
Identification. Lin. fil. Sup. Plant.; Dec. Prod., 7, p. 4.; Cav. Icon., 5. p. 64. ; Hook. Bot. Misc., 
1. p.7. ; 
Derivation. Named by Linnzus after his learned friend and correspondent, Don Jose Cel: 
Mutis, chief of the botanical expedition to New Grenada. 
Gen. Char., §c. Heads heterogamous, unequal-flowered. Involucre of many 
series of flat imbricated scales; outer ones shorter. Receptucle naked. 
Flowers of the disk hermaphrodite, those of the ray female. Corollas bila- 
biate, the tube 5—10—15-nerved; those on the disk rather tubular, the 
throat not distinct from the tube; outer lip of the limb tridentate, inner 
one bipartite: the outer lip of the ray flowers large, ligula-formed, and 
tridentate at apex ; under one bipartite, with linear lobes. Anthers wanting 
in the ray flowers ; those in the disk exserted, long-tailed. Style cylindrical, 
bifid. Achenia beaked, ribbed, long, and glabrous ; the palez being confer- 
ruminated at the base, fall off altogether or in one piece. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple or apparently compound, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; 
entire or serrated; the common petiole usually drawn out at the end into a 
tendril. Flowers purple, rose-coloured, or yellow. — Climbing shrubs, 
natives of South America, requiring the protection of a wall in the climate 
of London. 
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