a. 1. /Î. /Îb ro 'tan üm L. The Abrotainim Artemisia, or Southernwood.
Identification. Lin. Sp.. 1185. ; vriUd. Sp. Pl., 3. p. 1818. : Alt. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 5. p 3
Synynj/mes. ^brôtani.m tnas Dod Pempt. 21. ; Old Man ; Armoise Aurone, Aurone dcs Jardins, la
7/a/ a è d i ÿ i ^ ’ ’ Lberraute, Wermuth, Stabwurtz. Gartenwurtz. Ger. : Abrotaiio,
Derimtfon. The Greek name for this plant is Abrotonon, which is variously derived from nbroton
incorruptible ; from airom?!, unfit for iood ; from the soft delicacy {nbrotcs) of its appearance : or
ft om abro.ty soft, and extension, because it is extended, or grows in a very soft manner
Why Linnæus and others write it Abrotanum is not known. The name of Old Man, doubtless
has reference to its grey and ¡lowdery appearance. It is called Garderobe in French, from its
lieing used to prevent moths from getting into clothes-presses and wardrobes, lîberraute is boar’s
rue ; and V\ermuth, wormwood ; Stabwurtz means staff root ; and Gartenwurtz garden root.
Engravings Blackw., t. 55. ; Woodv., 356. t. 119. ; a n d o u r f i j . 1023.
Spec. Char., 4'c. Stem straight. Lower leaves bipinnate,
upper ones pinnate, with the segments hair-like. Calyxes
pubescent, hemispherical. ( WiRd.) A suffruticose bush.
South of Europe, Siberia, Syria,, and China. Height
3 ft. to 4 ft. in low situations, and in mountains not above
half that Iieight, with the branches recumbent. Introduced
in 1596. Flowers yellowish ; August to October.
Farieties.
JS. A. A. 2 kihiile Flort. is a low-growing spreading
shrub, found on moimtains in the South of Europe,
and retaining its dwarf habit for some years in
British gardens.
B. A. A. 3 tobolsldanum Hort., J. tobolskiana Lodd.
Cat., was introduced from Siberia in 1820 or before,
10*3. A. /Ib rátan um.
and is a much more vigorous-growing variety, and larger in all
its parts, than tiie species.
Well known for its fragrance, which appears to proceed
from glandular dots in the leaves.
(Rher Species.—A. arboréscens L., a native o fth e South
of France and the Levant, is said to attain the height
of 6 or 8 feet, hut it is more suffrutescent than A
Abrotanum. A. procèra Willd., South of France, is’
equally ligneous with the common southernwood, and
grows to the height of 5 or 6 feet in the Paris garden
where it stands the winter without protection. A. Saw-
tonica L., and our f g . 1024., is a low spreading bush, not
exceeding a foot in height.
G e n u s VI.
1024. A. Santönica.
YE.N'E'CIOBa..to,, T H F t a c Mn.Syst. Syugenèsia
Identification. Loss. Synops. Gen. Comnos., n ,„1
• - ^ K s » 4 B s a r à î B f * i ï s r * i E n s a w s . .
ray iiguiàlt. iS .n o í o™ s e ti£
flowers truncate, and penciled at apex. Achenia beakless, wingless, nearly
terete, and sulcately angular. Pappus pilose, in many series, cÿucous ;
bristles erect, nearly equal, very slender, scarcely scabrous. — Herbs or
shrubs, very variable in habit. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, corymbose,
or panicled. Ligulæ of heads yellow, rarely purple or white ;
the disks usually yellow. ( G. DonCj
Leaves simple, apparently compound, alternate,
exstipulate, evergreen; pinnatifid. Flowers
terminal.— A suffruticose bush, native of the
South of Europe.
it 1, S'. C i n e r a ' r i a Bee. The Cineraria-like
Senecio, or Sea Ragwoi't.
Identification. Dec. Prod., 6. p.355. ; Sweet Hort. Brit., ed.3. :
Sunonyrnes. Cinerària maritima JJn. Sp. 1244; Jacobæ'a marítima
Bonp. ; Sicilian Ragwort ; Cinéraire, Fr. ; Meerstrands
Aschenpflanze. Ger. ; Cenerina, ítai-
Engravmgs. Flor. Græc., t. 871. ; and our fig. 102.5.
Spec. Char., 4c. Leaves pinnatifid, tomentose beneath
; the lobes obtuse, and each consisting of
about 3 obtuse lobelets. Flowers in panicles.
Involucre tomentose. (Willd.) A suffru- 1025. s.Cinerària,
tescent bush, remarkable for the white mealy
aspect of its rambling branches and foliage. South of Europe, on the
sea coast and on rocks. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers
yellow, ragwort-like ; June to August.
Unless planted in very dry soil, it is liable to be killed to the ground in severe
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 affainst a wall, where it may be associated with iSolànum marginatum, and
any other ligneous whitish-leaved species of that genus.
G e n u s VII.
A
MUTFS/A Cav. T h e M u t i s ia . Lin. Syst.
Supèrflua.
Syngenèsia Polygàmia
Identification. Lin. ül. Sup. Plant. ; Dec. Prod., 7. p. 4. ; Cav. Icon., 5. p. 64. ; Hook. Bot. Misc.,
Ik r ^a iio n . Named hy Linnæus after his learned friend and correspondent, Don Jose. Celesttno
Mutis, chief of the botanical expedition to New Grenada.
Gen. Char., 4c. Heads heterogamous, unequal-flowered. Involucre of many
series of flat imbricated scales ; outer ones shorter. Receptacle naked.
Floivers of the disk hermaphrodite, those of the ray female. Corollas bilabiate,
the tube 5—10—15-nerved; those on the disk rather tubular, the
throat not distinct from the tube; outer lip of the limb tridentate, inner
one bipartite : the outer lip of the ray flowers large, ligula-formed, and
tridentate at apex ; under one bipartite, with linear lobes. Anthers wanting
in the ray flowers ; those in the disk exserted, long-tailed. Style cylindrical,
bifid. Achenia beaked, ribbed, long, and glabrous ; the paleæ being conier-
ruminated at the base, fall off altogether or in one piece. (G. Don.)
Leaves simple or apparently compound, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ;
entire or serrated; the common petiole usually drawn out at the end into a
tendril. Flowers purple, rose-coloured, or yellow. — Climbing shrubs,
natives of South America, requiring the orotection of a wall in the climate
of London. N N 4
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