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CINERARIA LACTEA. 



which may be expected shortly. It is certainly not a Cineraria, as that genus is 

 at present denned by Lessing. Neither is it a Senecio according to that character 

 of the same author. After numerous careful dissections of the female and her- 

 maphrodite florets, we find the branches of the style covered with papillse, and 

 thickened towards the apex, a character on which the tribe Eupatoriace^e is now 

 constituted both by Lessing and De Candolle, to which, accordingly, it ought to 

 be referred ; but we believe it belongs to the tribe Senecionidese. It has in habit, 

 as in many parts of the character, much resemblance to the genus Brachyglottis, 

 Forst. De Cand. Prod. vol. 5, p. 210 — as, for instance, in its heterogamus heads, 

 involucrum, the bracteolate calyx, and the exserted obtuse branches of the style, 

 also the pappus ; but neither with that or with any neighbouring genus does it 

 appear to belong. We have therefore retained Willdenow's name, Cineraria 

 lactea, rather than change it for another, as we believe it will be properly arranged 

 when the volume by the above-mentioned distinguished botanist is published. 



It is a green-house plant, native of Teneriffe, where it was collected by P. B. 

 Webb, Esq., and sent from thence with many other rare plants in 1829 to his 

 gardens at Millford House, near Godalming, Surrey. See Gardeners' Magazine, 

 vol. 6, p. 330 to 333. The soil should be peat and loam. It may be increased 

 by cuttings of the young wood, and also by seeds, which are sometimes perfected. 

 Our drawing was taken from a fine specimen in the Birmingham Botanic Garden. 



The generic name Cineraria is said to be derived from cineres, ashes ; the 

 specific name, lactea, from lacteus, milky — both referring to the hoary state of 

 the plant. 



Fig. 1, involucrum ; 2, receptacle ; 3, seed with pappus ; 4, the same with 

 tubular floret ; 5, ligulate floret. 



