340 THE GREEN-HOUSE CATALOGUE. 



This is a handsome family of plants intermediate between 

 shrubs and herbs. They have mostly white hairy or woolly 

 leaves^ and their flowers are exceedingly brilliant, generally 

 yellow and orange, and preserve their colours a long time 

 in a dried state. They grow in sandy peat, the pots being 

 well drained and not over large. Cuttings root in sand 

 on heat, but uncovered, as the confinement of a bell is 

 apt to damp off the leaves. They are almost all Cape 

 plants, and flower at various periods, but chiefly from May 

 to August. 



B accha' ris angustifolia, ivafolia and neriifolia, American 

 and a Cape undershrub of similar habits to Helichrysum, 

 and requiring similar treatment. They are of no beauty, 

 and only curious on account of their white woolly leaves. 



Cony'za camphorata. 

 C. Candida. C. rupestris. 



C. verbascifdlia. C. serlcea. 



C. hirsicta. C. inulotdes. 



C. Gouani. C. incha. 



Cfos'tida. C. virgdta. 



C. sordida. C. rugosa. 



C. saxatilis. 



Low spongy whitish shrubs from different parts of the 

 South of Europe, Africa, and America, of no beauty. 

 They grow in loam and peat, and young cuttings root in 

 sand under a bell-glass. 



Eri^geron glaucum, B. R. 10, a low spongy shrub which 

 flowers great part of the year, but has little else to recom- 

 mend it. It grows freely in loam and peat, and cuttings 

 root readily under a hand-glass. 



Tussila' GO /ra^raws, B. M. 1388, a frame perennial 

 from Italy, valued for its fragrance. It grows in any soil, 

 and increases itself like the common Tussilago. One plant 

 will perfume a whole green-house. 



