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ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
Senecio cineraria (Decandolle). 
(Nat. Ord. Compositae) 
Cineraria maritima, Linnaeus, AUioni. 
A beautiful plant to be admired on tbe 
bare rocks of Capo Santa Groce, Porto 
Salvo, Capo Mele, a few metres from the 
sea to the height of a hundred. It forms 
fine bushes of 60 centim. in height by 30 
to 40 in width. From the root spring many 
erect branches woody at the base, with 
numerous ramifications at the top bearing 
the flowers. It is impossible to mistake this 
plant for another, even when it is not in 
blossom, the pure white of nearly all its 
parts striking the eye at the first glance. 
The leaves are alternate ; the lower 
oval, dentated, or slightly pinnatifid, with 
wide limb; the upper pinnato-lobated, 
nearly pinnatifid, woolly, very white below, 
specially in the young leaves, green above, 
and covered with a woolly substance which 
can be easily remov'Ml by a slight rub, 
leaving the leaf glabrous and shining. The 
white stratum of the other parts is more 
