CINERARIA WEBBERIANA. 
(Mr. Webber's Cineraria.) 
Class 
SYNGENESIA* 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Generic Character.' — Involucre deeply many-parted, the base. Pappus pilose, sessile, 
without external bracteae ; lobes equal. Receptacle Specific Character. Plant a seedling or hybrid, of 
naked. Florets of the disk tubular, hermaphrodite ; vigorous habits, and with large, deep as well as bright 
those of the rays ligulate, female. Anthers naked at blue flowers. 
Hybrid Cinerarias are now becoming so numerous, that it is with difficulty 
many of them can be distinguished from each other ; and the yearly addition of 
such numbers of new ones tends greatly to add to the confusion of those who desire 
to gain a knowledge of their peculiarities. We would by no means, however, 
deprecate the still further extension of the practice of hybridizing ; since it has 
been the means of creating quite a novel and superior race in these, as well as 
other flowers. All we would wish to do, is to refrain from conferring distinctive 
titles on those which are, as it were, lost amid the crowd of varieties that resemble 
them, and cannot, without the closest examination, have their differences deter- 
mined. 
That there are hybrids deserving both notice and perpetuation as distinct 
varieties, the C. Waterkousiana, first brought into repute by a figure in the fourth 
volume of our Magazine, and which has ever since retained its character ; with the 
one called King, and the splendidum of Mr. Green, bear abundant testimony. And 
we have the same friendly office now to perform for C. Webberiana which we did 
for C. Waterhousiana. We do it, too, with an equal degree of satisfaction, and of 
confidence that it will be found worthy, alike of cultivation for its own merits, 
and of using as a parent from which to obtain other beautiful seedlings. 
It was raised in the spring of last year from seeds ripened promiscuously on a 
number of plants, of various kinds, blooming together, by Mr. Smithers, gardener 
to Robert Williams, Esq., of Bridehead House, near Dorchester. The stock being 
transferred to Mr. Webber, nurseryman, Merriott Nurseries, near Crewkherne, 
Somersetshire, and that gentleman having sent us a specimen, which was the 
subject of the accompanying plate, we have named it C, Webberiana. 
Order. 
SUPERFLUA. 
