raria alpina, Relh. FI. Cant. (1st ed.) p. 320. t. 4. — Ait. Hort. Kew. (1st ed.) 
v. iii. p.222. — Jacobcea Pannnnica folio non laciniato, Ray’s Syn. p. 178.— 
Jacobcea angustifolia, Johnson’s Gerarde, p.280. 
Localities. — On chalky downs, or limestone cliffs, rare. — Oxfordshire; 
Mungewell, on Grime’s Dike ; Burford Downs: Dr. Sibtiiorp. Stokenchurch 
Hill : 1836, E. F. Witts, Esq. — Berks ; On the Downs near Streatley : May 13, 
1819, W.B. In the same place: 1836, VV. Borrer, Esq .—Cambridgeshire ; 
Gog-magog Hills; Newmarket Heath : Rev. R. Relhan. Devil’s Ditch, New- 
market : Rev. Professor H enslow. — Dorset ; Top of Hod and Hambledon Hills : 
Dr. Pulteney. — Gloucestersh Beaumont's Hay, near Slaughter : E. F. Witts, 
Esq. — Hants; Near Basingstoke, and Andover: Hudson. Belhan, Isle of 
Wight; and Flower Down near Winton : Dr. Pui.teney. — Herts; Near 
Tring: Dickson. — Northamptonsh. Wittering Heath: Morton. — Sussex; 
In several places on the Downs: W. Borrer, Esq. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root fibrous. Stem upright, from 3 to 8 inches or a foot high, 
simple, woolly, somewhat angular, or furrowed. Root-leaves several, 
close to the ground, egg-shaped, inversely egg- or elliptic-oblong, 
tapering at the base, sometimes stalked, obscurely toothed, often 
entire, somewhat revolute, loosely cottony on the upper surface, 
more copiously so on the under. Stem-leaves scattered, sessile, or 
half-stem-clasping, upright, spear-shaped, revolute, entire, woolly. 
Flowers 3 or 4, (seldom only 1 or 2.) bright yellow, terminating 
the stem in an imperfect umbel ; their partial stalks with several 
strap-spear-shaped, pointed, woolly bracteas at their base. Invo- 
lucrum (calyx) rather woolly; the upper half of its scales pale 
and somewhat membranous. Florets of the Disk (fig. 2.) numer- 
ous, prominent ; those of the Ray (fig. 3.) from 10 to 15, about 
twice as long as the involucrum, nearly oval, blunt, with 3 teeth at 
the summit. Seeds (fig. 5.) silky. Pappus rough. The whole 
herb is clothed, more or less, with a shaggy, deciduous, cottony 
web, which is most dense and permanent on the backs of the leaves ; 
the plant is also subject to much variation in size, and also in the 
number of flowers. There are specimens in the Sherardian 
Herbarium with 1, 2, 3, and 6 flowers on each, and varying in 
height from 3 to 7 or 8 inches. 
Cineraria alpina of Allioni’s Flora Pedemontana, v. i. p. 203, t. 38. f. 2 ; 
C. maritima, integrifolia of Davies’. Welsh Botanology, p. 79 ; is a variety 
of this, and was found by the Rev. H. Davies, on cliffs near Holyhead, Angle- 
sea. It is said to be thrice the size of the above, growing from 1 to 2 feet high 
or more, and producing from 4 to 6 flowers in the umbel. Its radical leaves are 
sometimes widely toothed. — Cn. C. Babington, Esq. of St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, found this variety in the greatest plenty on the Gog-magog Hills, 
on the 8th of June, 1829, growing in the very same place in which the first va- 
riety is commonly found. Mr. Babington thinks it probable that the moisture 
of the weather during the Spring of that year had the same effect there which 
the vicinity of the sea has at Holyhead, namely, that of converting this species 
from the small state in which it is usually lound into the large and dissimilar 
plant, called by Mr. Davies Cineraria maritima integrifolia. See Loudon’s 
Magazine of Natural History, vol. v. p. 88, where both varieties are figured. 
There are specimens, in the SHERARDtAN Herbarium, of what 1 think is a va- 
riety of Cineraria Campestris, with a stem above 15 inches long, terminated 
by an umbel of 10 or 12 flowers, and agreeing pretty well with the description 
of Mr. Davies’ plant, except that it is more woolly than the common one, and 
not smoother, as Dr. Withering describes it. 
Cineraria integrifolia of Wile denow is a distinct species, and is said to be 
a native of Germany and Switzerland. 
The drawing for the annexed plate was made from a plant which 
flowered in the Botanic Garden in June last. It was taken up from 
the Downs at Streatley, in the Spring of the present year (1536), 
and kindly presented to me by W. Borrer, Esq. 
