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C. geifolia (b); and (c) C. amelloides (Agathcea coelestis, Cass.). These 
trials, however, do not appear to have succeeded with C. geifolia, which 
has yellow flowers, and C. 
amelloides , which has blue 
ones, both being natives of 
the Cape ; but between C. 
cruenta and C. lanata , the 
flowers of which were of 
nearly the same colour, some 
handsome hybrids were 
raised. Since that time 
numerous experiments have 
been made, and hybrids 
have been raised from C. 
cruenta , C. aurita (a purple- 
flowered plant having a dis¬ 
agreeable smell, a native of Madeira), C. Tussilaginis (a handsome species 
from Teneriffe), and C. populifolia. Cineraria Tussilaginis has two 
synonymes; viz. Senecio Tussilaginis , under which name it was figured 
in the Bot. Beg. t. 1550, and Pericallis Tussilaginis , which it is called in 
Sweet's Brit. Flow. Gard., 2nd ser. t. 228. 
Some of the most beautiful Cinerarias now in our greenhouses have 
been raised by Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place; particularly 
C. Hendersoni and the King, both raised from seeds of C. cruenta. 
C. Waterhousiana was raised by Mr. Tate, gardener to John Waterhouse, 
Esq. of Well Head, near Halifax, from seed of C. Tussilaginis , fertilised 
by the pollen of C. cruenta. Two new ones have lately been raised, of 
remarkably clear and brilliant colours, apparently from C. cruenta , named 
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, by Mr. Pierce, nurseryman, of 
Yeovil, Somersetshire. 
The name Cineraria is derived from the Latin word for ashes, in 
allusion to the white mealy appearance of the leaves, either on the surface, 
as in C. cruenta and its varieties, which are crimson below, or below, when 
the upper surface is green, as in C. lanata and many other kinds. The 
greater part of this genus has, however, been incorporated in that of Senecio 
(from senex , an old man) by Lessing ; and this alteration has been adopted 
by De Candolle, and some other modern botanists. Only six species, one 
of whidi is C. geifolia , have been left in the genus Cineraria. 
When Cinerarias are raised from seed, care should be taken to obtain 
the seed from the largest and finest-coloured flowers. These must be 
watched every day lest they should be scattered by the wind; as it is 
Fig. 39. 
CINERARIA LANATA, C. GEIFOLIA, AND C. AMELLOIDES. 
