By Mr. John Lindley. 



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which have been lately introduced. It has been figured in the 

 Botanical Register, tab. 763. 



LX. Senecio venustus. Aiton. 



A handsome perennial plant, perfectly hardy, and easily 

 cultivated. The leaves are chiefly radical, nearly upright, 

 and finely divided. The flowers corymbose, standing about 

 a foot and a half high, bright purple, and remaining long 

 open. The plant was raised from seeds communicated to the 

 Society by Mr. Frederic Otto, from the Royal Botanic* 

 Garden of Berlin, in 1822. It is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 



LXI. Calendula incana. Willdenow. 



Plants of this were raised from seed sent to the Society b^ 

 Mr. Christopher Abraham Fischer, from the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Garden of Gottingen. It is a hoary, branching plant, 

 about two feet high, with whitish leaves, and beautiful pale 

 yellow flowers, expanding in the bright sunshine, like those 

 of some of the handsomest kinds of Mesembryanthemum. 

 It is a native of the south of Europe and north of Africa, 

 and quite hardy. It is figured under the name of Calendula 

 tomentosa, in the Flora Atlantica of M. Desfontaines, vol. ii. 

 tab. 245. 



