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2.— GAILLARDIA ARISTATA, Pursh. THE BRISTLY GAILLARDIA. 
Synonyms. — G. bicolor, var.. Nut. | Specific Character. — The whole plant pubescently hirsute. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. 2940; Bot. Reg. 1186; and our fig. 2, Leaves oblong, lower ones sinuately pinnatifid, attenuated towards the 
Plate 52. I petiole ; upper ones sessile, entire. Florets of the ray one colour. 
Description, &c. — A tall branching plant, with hairy leaves and stem. The leaves are four or six inches 
long, and of a bluish green, and the flowers are large and very showy. It grows abundantly in dry soils, in 
California, and along the whole of the west coast of North America, whence it was introduced in 1812. It is 
quite hardy, and will grow in almost any soil and situation. It is propagated by seeds, the plants from which 
vary considerably in size, some being not more than eight or ten inches high, while others in the same border 
reach the height of 3 or 4 feet. 
GENUS XXIII. 
CINERARIA, Lin. THE CINERARIA. 
Lin. Syst. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Char,acter. — Involucre deeply cut into many parts ; seg- | bermapbrodite ; florets of tbe ray ligulate, feminine. Anthers naked 
ments nearly equal, receptacle naked. Florets of tbe disk tubular, \ at the base. Pappus hairy, sessile. 
Description, &c. — Cineraria is one of those genera which has been completely cut up by modern botanists, 
and its species so distributed among other genera that very few have been left under their original name. Thus 
the beautiful greenhouse plants, that are called Cineraria even in English, are no longer included in that genus by 
botanists, but have been removed to Senecio. Many of the hardy species have shared the same fate, and others 
have been removed to many new genera formed to receive them. The name of Cineraria itself seems extremely 
ill applied to a genus which contains so many splendid flowers, as it signifies ashes ; but it alludes to the powdery 
appearance of the leaves. 
1.— CINERARIA AURANTIACA, Willd. THE ORANGE-COLOURED CINERARIA. 
Synonyme. — Senecio aurantiaca, Dec. 
Engravings. — Sweet’s Brit. Flower Gard., t. 256 ; and our fig. 2, 
in Plate 54. 
Specific Character. — Stems simple. Leaves and stem woolly. 
Radical leaves elliptic, repandly dentate, decurrent. Stem-leaves lance- 
olate, entire. Corymb few-flowered, involucre leafy. 
Description, &c. — The whole of this plant, except the flowers, is covered with long white wool, which 
appears as if laid on in flakes. The stem grows from one to two feet high, and is quite erect. The leaves are 
various in their form, but all are of a bluish green. The flowers are of a singular appearance, from their varying 
in colour considerably in the same corymb. Some are of a bright orange-brown, with a reddish tinge ; others 
are bright orange ; others golden-yellow and others of a paler but still brilliant yellow, all of them being 
sweet-scented. The plant is a native of the Alps of Switzerland, and is very liable to rot in winter, unless 
planted in a very dry, sandy soil. It does very well on rock-work, if grown in very poor soil, to prevent it 
becoming too large ; but the flowers of the plants grown on rock-work are neither so large nor so numerous as 
those of plants grown in the open garden. It was introduced about 1818. 
