Dr. Shaw. At the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. it is 
treated as a hardy plant, and grows in great luxuriance, 
forming a close grey-leaved bush of considerable circum- 
ference, and about a foot and half high; but flowers too late 
in the year for the bloom to be seen in perfection any where 
but in the greenhouse. ‘The specific name has been derived 
from the likeness of the foliage to that of the common Stock 
or Gilliflower; though the resemblance appears to us much 
stronger between the stem and branches of the two plants ~ 
than between their foliage. 
The principal distinction of Oronna, besides the barren 
disk and fertile ray, is a simple definitely cleft calyx. 
Cheirifolia is an evergreen glaucous thickish leaved un- 
dershrub; stems like those of the common Stock, procum- 
bent, rooting; branches assurgent, herbaceous, glaucous, 
fleshy, proliferous or shootbearing in the axil of every leaf. 
Leaves alternate, distich, halfstemclasping, with short inter- 
vals, rather fleshy, spathulate or cuneate, elongatedly ob- 
long, about 3 inches in length and 3 of an inch at the 
broadest, round-topped, with a small obsolete point, sur- 
rounded by a narrow white cartilaginous roughish edge: 
floral ones oblong, 1 or 2 sometimes very short and ovate. 
Peduncles one-flowered, terminal, solitary, upright, round, 
thickish, longer than the leaves, smooth. lowers golden 
yellow, more than an inch in diameter, rayed. Calyx green, _ 
_ of one piece, campanulate, about half an inch deep, 7-8- 
cleft, smooth, glaucous, segments acuminated, villous at 
the point, with a white membranous edge. Florets of the 
ray fertile, 12-13? one third longer than the calyx, blade 
broadly ligulate, obovately oblong, 5-nerved, turned in at: 
the sides, twoplaited at the back, 3-toothletted, tube slender, 
filiform, smooth, greenish; stigma twocleft, deep yellow, 
frosted, lobes short, linear, oblong, reflex along the sides, 
protruding; germen white, turbinate, round, twice shorter 
than the pappus, smooth: pappus white, numerous, feathered, 
dense, equal to the tube: florets of the disk barren, long- 
funnelform, smooth, yellow, limb pointed upright together 
with the faux equal to the tube: anthers deep yellow, pro- 
truding but little: stigma clavate, pubescent, greenish, pro- 
truding: germen slender or filiform, equal to tube: pappus 
thin, few-rayed. Receptacle naked, conical. 
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