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SENECIO venustus. 
- Handsome Senecio. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. Composirn. 
_ SENECIO. Vide supra vol. 1. fol. 41. 
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S. venustus ; corollis radiantibus, caule, calyce, foliisque elabris, foliis pinna- 
tifidis, laciniis linearibus acutis dentatis. A7t. Kew. ed. 1. 3.192. 
Willd. sp. pl. 3.1990. Pers. syn. 2.434. Lindl. in Hort. trans. 6.99. 
A very handsome herbaceous plant, in favourable situa- 
tions living for three or four years, but, if treated as a hardy 
plant, perishing after the second. year. 
It is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and usually increased by seed. 
Nearly related to the common Senecio elegans, or 
Purple Ragwort of the gardens, from which it is distin- 
guished by the smoothness of all its parts, and by its leaves 
being more finely divided and more acute. The under- 
‘side of the leaves, upon the mid-rib, is frequently beset 
with soft bristles. —S 
~ _ No figure of this plant has been previously published. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society, from a plant raised from seed presented to the 
Society from the Royal Botanic Garden at Berlin, by 
Mr. Ottoxs vena) Ai) 
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