SANTOLINA CHAM^CYPARISSUS 



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branches, alternate simple entire to lobed leaves and persistent collection 

 of hairy fruits resembling small white brushes, in fall and early winter. 

 The shrub is dioecious, so not all of them have this showy appearance. 

 This plant belongs to the daisy group of flowers, the individual blos- 

 soms are very small and grow in heads which are popularly considered as 

 the flowers. The part which produces the showy appearance of the 

 groundsel bush is the pappus, so conspicuous in thistles. The stamen- 

 bearing plant has unconspicuous yellowish flowers. It is a useful shrub, 

 especially for coastwise cultivation, as it particularly thrives in the salt 



Fig. 406.— Foxberry. 



Fig. 407. — Evergreen Vine Blueberr j 



air. A southern plant with willow-like deciduous leaves, Willow 

 LEAVED Groundsel Tree — Bacoharis salicifblia, — may be in cultivation 

 An evergreen species of the Pacific region is Baccharis piluUris. 



[Seeds ; twig cuttings under ^aas.'i 



Santolina Chamascyparissus. Lavender Cotton (402) is a halt-jSnratby 

 plant (1^-2 feet) with aromatic alternate evergreen deeply-lobed silvery 

 gray leaves and small globular heads of yellow flowers, in summer. It is 

 used South for the shrubbery, but North mainly for carpet-bedding, for 

 this latter purpose slips rooted in sand are kept through the winter. 



[Twig cuttings.] 



