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An ancient name. These plants have everlasting flowers ; 

 many of them are introduced into the garden, others require 

 the shelter of the greenhouse, as G. purpureum, with purple 

 flowers, from South America ; lasiocaulon, with white flowers 

 and woolly stalks, from the Cape ; acuminatum, also white- 

 flowered, from Australia ; and involucratum, with green 

 flowers, from New Zealand. Schraderi, citrinum, pulverulum, 

 and spicatum are rather more hardy than the above species, 

 and will bear putting out in the summer. 



CINERARIA. 



Gen. Char. (Syngenesia P. Superflua.) Florets of the disc 

 having both stamens and pistils, — of the ray, pistils only ; re- 

 tacle naked ; pappus simple ; involucre simple, many-leaved, 

 equal. 



The name is derived from cineres, ashes, from the colour 

 of the soft down on the leaves. This genus consists of 

 Cape plants principally, of a half-shrubby nature, and some 

 of them tolerably hardy, that is, they bear the open air 

 in the summer, but require the greenhouse in the winter. 

 A fine collection of these plants is very gay, from the beauty 

 and star-like character of their flowers, which are remarkably 



