CINERA'RIA TUSSILAGINOrDES-CRUENTA. 
WATERHOUSE’S CINERARIA 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLEA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Hybrid 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Raised 
Origin. 
1 foot. 
Mar., April. 
Perennial 
in 1838 . } 
No. 893. 
The name. Cineraria, is derived from cine res, 
signifying ashes; applied on account of the grey 
ash-like appearance of the leaves. This variety of 
of Cineraria was raised in the garden of Job 
Waterhouse, Esq., of Halifax, and its name some- 
times Latinized into Waterhousiana. 
It is by no means an objectionable practice to 
commemorate, in plain English, the name of the 
originator, or place of the origin of hybrid plants; 
but in all cases, where it is possible, it seems to us 
a far more useful practice, when an approach to- 
wards a systematic name is aimed at ; and when 
the origin of a hybrid plant is known, to render 
this knowledge permanent, by the union of the 
names of the two species from which it originated, 
and attaching them as its specific appellation. Thus, 
in the present instance, we unite the names of the 
two parents, tussilaginoides and cruenta, as a specific 
name. It would be more conformable to classical 
learning, to place the name of that plant first from 
which the pollen was obtained, but we have pre- 
ferred the contrary practice, and placed that first 
from which the seed was procured, on account of the 
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