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P L A T E CCCCLXXXVII.
X E R A N T H E M U M H E R B A C E U M .
He7~baceous Eternal Flower.
C L A S S XIX. O R D E R II.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Tips united. Superfluous
Pointals.
E S S ENT IAL G E N E R I C CHA R A C T E R .
RECEPTACULUM paleaceum, aut nudum. Pappus
setaceus. Calyx irabricatus, radiatus,
radio colorato.
SPECIFIC
XERANTHEMUM berbaceum : foliis amplexicaulibus,
oblongis, margine revolutis^ lana alba
teclis : floribus terminalibus, solitariis, pallide
aurantiiSj nitidissimls : squamae inferae
fiilvescCntes.
RECEPTACLE chaffy, or naked. Featlier bristly.
Empalement tiled, rayed, the ray coloured.
CHA R A C T E R .
XEKANTHEMUM with an herbaceous stem: leaves
embracing tlie stem, oblong, rolled back
at the edges, and covered with a white
wool : flowers terminate the branches
singly, are of a pale gold colour, and very
shining : the lower scales are of a foxy tint.
R E F E R ENC E TO THE P L A T E .
1. One of the radiating scales.
2. A floret of the disk.
3. The chives and pointal.
4. Leaf of a variety.
T H I S handsome species of Xeranthemum may be regarded as truly herbaceous, as the plant not only
dies down annually, but even whilst living keeps constantly sending up fresh shoots from the root.
The white appearance of the leaves is owing to their being enveloped by a kind of wool : but there
are two varieties ; the one whose foliage is almost without this woolly coat, and the other entirely divested
of it, and of a rich gi-een colour ; but in every other particular the plants are all exactly alike.
Our fi'^ure was made from a small plant in fine flower in the conservatory of G. Hibbert, esq.
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