Refugium Rotanicum.] [June, 1873. 
TAB. 344. 
Natural Order CoMPoOSsIT. 
Sub-order SENECIONIDEA. 
Genus CrnerariA, Linn. 
CG. ancuemmorwes (DC. Prod. vi. 807). Caulibus erectis debilibus 
furcatis cum pedunculis petiolis et facie inferiori foliorum 
albo-araneoso-canescentibus, foliis petiolatis reniformibus cor- 
datis teneris leviter palmatim 5—9-fidis dentatis supra viri- 
dibus glabris, corymbo laxo polycephalo pedicellis elongatis, 
involucri squamis 9—10 ligulatis acutis dorso glabrescentibus, 
ligulis 7—8 flavis, achenus applanatis glabris papilloso-ciliatis, 
pappi setis albis mollibus elongatis.—Harv. Fl. Cap. i. 310. 
A native of Cape Colony, sent by Dr. Callaway to Mr. D. 
Hanbury. 
An erect herbaceous perennial, two to three feet high, with 
slender forked stems thinly coated with white floccose pubescence. 
Stipules in our plant abortive. Petioles half an inch to two 
inches long. Leaves cordate-reniform, with five to nine shallow 
palmate lobes which are furnished with irregular broad teeth ; the 
texture thin and flaccid; the upper surface green, glabrescent ; 
the lower side densely at first, thinly when mature, coated with 
white floccose hairs like those of the stem. Heads numerous, 
laxly corymbose, on weak cottony peduncles, furnished with one 
or two minute linear adpressed bracts. Involucral scales nine to 
ten, placed edge to edge, green, glabrescent on the back, with a 
distinct pale border. Expanded heads nearly an inch across. 
Ray-florets female, only seven to eight, bright yellow. Achenia 
flattened, brown, glabrous, ciliated with white papillose hairs. 
Pappus a tuft of soft pure white ciliated hairs as long as the 
florets of the disk. 
Our plant differs from C. alchemilloides by the absence of 
stipules, but it is likely that this is accidental only, and that 
CG. erodioides, DC., is simply another state of the same species. 
Tan. 344.1, single flower; 2, stamen ; 8, portion of receptacle ; 
4, stigmas: all magnified. 5, fruit, natural size. 6, bristle of 
pappus; 7, fruit: both magnified.—J. G. B. 
Sere 
