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across, in the female plant twice as long as in the male, 3 to 7, col- 
lected into a corymbose head, of which the short branches bear 
only 1 or (more 1 rarely) 2 anthodes. Elorets pink. Corolla of the 
female flower with a very oblique limb. Achcncs oblong-fusiform, 
papillose. Pappus of the fertile florets of slender hairs; pappus 
of the slender abortive ovaries of the male plant of very numerous 
clavate compressed hairs with thick denticulations. 
Mount k'iii 'Everlasting. 
French, Qnapkale Pied de Chat. German, Zioeihiiusiges Ruhrkraut. 
The flowers sold so much in France under the name of Immortelles are a species 
of this genus, and resemble our native ones, which form a substitute for the brighter 
kinds. Wreaths, chaplets, and innumerable devices are formed out of these flowers, to 
rate the graves of departed friends, in France. In the neighbourhood of Fere la 
(.'liaise, the great Parisian cemetery, numbers of families are constantly employed in 
the manufacture of these memorials, and a large sale of them is constantly effected. 
Imperishable as the affection which dictates the adornment, these pretty flowers are 
supposed to be. 
Tribe IV.— SENECIONEtE. 
Leaves alternate. Anthodes generally heterogamous and ra- 
diant. Elorets of the disk tubular, perfect, those of the circum- 
ference ^enerallv female and ligulate. Anthers without basal 
appendages. Branches of the style slender, terminated by a 
pencil-like tuft. Achenes cylindrical, with longitudinal ridges. 
Pappus consisting of hairs, very rarely absent. 
GENUS XVI.— S E N E C I O. Linn. 
Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, rarely homogamous and 
discoid. Clinanth flatfish or convex, pitted but without paleae. 
Pericline cylindrical or campanulate, of a single row of equal 
herbaceous phyllaries, generally with a second irregular series of 
much shorter ones at the base, all at length reflexed. Elorets 
of the disk tubular and perfect, generally surrounded by a ray 
female ligulate florets. Branches of the style of the perfect 
flowers truncate, penicillate at the apex. Achenes cylindrical, not 
beaked, ribbed. Pappus of numerous rows of setaceous, nearly 
simple, more or less caducous hairs. 
Annual or perennial herbs or under-shrubs, with alternate 
leaves, and corymbose (more rarely paniculate or solitary) an- 
thodes. Elorets generally yellow, more rarely orange or purple. 
Tin- name of this genus of plants is given in allusion to the hoary appearance of 
■ ! the species, and comes from senex, an old man. 
