. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLH. compo'sitje: mvti'sia. 551 flowers truncate, and penciled at apex. Achenia beakless, wingless, nearly terete, and sulcately angular. Pappus pilose, in many series,, caducous ; bristles erect, nearly equal, very slender, scarcely scabrous.—Herbs or shrubs, very variable in habit. Lea
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLH. compo'sitje: mvti'sia. 551 flowers truncate, and penciled at apex. Achenia beakless, wingless, nearly terete, and sulcately angular. Pappus pilose, in many series,, caducous ; bristles erect, nearly equal, very slender, scarcely scabrous.—Herbs or shrubs, very variable in habit. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, co- rymbose, or panicled. Ligulae of heads yellow, rarely purple or white; the disks usually yellow. (&. jDob.) Leaves simple, apparently compound, alter- nate, exstipulate, evergreen; pinnatifid. Flowers terminal. — A suffruticose bush, native of the South of Europe. tt 1. S. CiNERA^RiA Dec. The Cineraria-like Senecio, or Sea Ragwort. Identification. Dec Prod., 6. p. 355.; Sweet Hort, Bfit, ed. 3. p. 384. Synonymes. Cineraria maritima Lin. Sp. 1214; Jacobse^a ma- ritima Bonp.; Sicilian Ragwort; Cineraire, i^.; Meerstracds Aschenpflanz'e, Ger.; Cenerina, Itat. Engravings. Flor. Grace, t. 871.; and our Jig. 1025. Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves pinnatifid, tomentose be- neath ; the lobes obtuse, and each consisting of about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles. Involucre tomentose. (^Willd.) A sufiru- tescent bush, remarkable for the white mealy aspect of its rambling branches and foliage. South of Europe, on tne sea coast and on rocks. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1396. Flowers yellow, ragwort-like; June to August. Unless planted in very dry soil, it is liable to be killed to the ground in se- vere winters; but suCh is the beauty of its whitish, large, and deeply sinuated foliage, at every season of the year, that it well deserves a place on rockwork or against a wall, where it may be associated with 5olanum marginatum, and any other li
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