without an equal, “sine pari pro flore perennante.” Its 
branches are very elastic, and have the appearance of frosted 
silver, from a dense white nap that covers them. Within 
the first year’s growth, the stem is observed to put forth 
numerous hoary oblong-spatulate and linear leaves, de- 
creasing from an inch to scarcely two lines in length. Si- 
milar ones are also borne by one or two of the lower 
branches, but ail disappear after or before the end of the 
first year, none such being reproduced, nor indeed any of 
any sort on the stem and principal branches. Each leaf of 
the adult plant produces from its axil a short branch, simi- 
lar to that on which itself was first produced, then falls 
off, thus forming the most bushy shrub of the genus. An 
entire flower of the preceding year is almost always found 
faded, but not decayed, in the fork of the flowering 
branches of the present. Plukenet is the only author, who 
seems to have noticed the difference of the primary leaves 
from that of the succeeding ones. The plant is peculiarly 
subject to be destroyed by the damp of Winter-fogs; and 
should be kept in the most light and airy part of the green- 
house that can be selected. It thrives best in black. sandy 
peat-mould. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it 
is found on the tops of the mountains. Introduced by Mr, 
Masson in 1789. : 
_ Exicurysum at present consists of the shrubby species 
formerly included in XeRantuEmum ; from the herbaceous 
ones of which it has been detached by Willdenow, as 
differing in character, by a receptacle not clothed with 
chaffy bractes; but naked, and by a pappus not of chaft: 
bristles ; but of simple or else feathered hairs. y 
_ The drawing of the flowering branch was made at Messrs, 
Colville’s nursery ; that of the separate leaf and branche 
-in Mr. Creswell’s conservatory, Battersea-Square. 3 
a A vertical section of the flower. % A female rae 
inner leaflet of the ray of the calyx. dA male ria satan cee 
e The same magnified. fA female floret and hirsute germen cro Gigae 
a more numerous pappus. g The same magnified. Oheler ths igo A 
primary stem-leaves, 7A lower branch of the yearling plant. rmast 
