CINERARIA RENIFO'LIA. 
KIDNEY-LEAVED CINERARIA. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. 8UPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Russia. 
9 inches. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1833. 
No. 619. 
Many of the species of Cineraria possess a hairy 
clothing, which gives them an ash-coloured appear- 
ance, whence the name, from the Latin cineris, ashes. 
Renifolia, from ren, kidney ; folium, a leaf. 
This is a species hitherto but little known ; it is 
entered in the seed list of the Peterburgh Botanic 
Garden, on the authority of Meyer, through which 
means it may possibly have been introduced into 
this country. The regular communication which 
is now being established between public gardens, 
in all quarters of the globe, promises to do more 
for the extension of botanical knowledge, than 
could possibly be derived from any other source. 
When such intercourse is well established, its ad- 
vantages may be expected to continue, inasmuch as 
they will prove reciprocal. All such establish- 
ments have an urgent demand for support, on every 
one who feels an interest in the spread of a pursuit 
closely connected with moral consideration. 
When cultivated so as to be shown in close 
masses, or on rock- work, this plant assumes a de- 
sirable gaiety. It may be increased slowly by divi- 
sion of the roots, or more abundantly by seeds. 
