The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 03 & 04 [of 10]

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Receptaculum paleaceum. Pappus setaceus. Calyx imbricatus, radiatus; radio colorato.

Receptacle chaffy. Feather bristly. Cup-tiled, with a ray; the ray coloured.

See Xeranthemum speciosissimum, Pl. LI. Vol. I.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Xeranthemum foliis caulinis linearibus, sub-teretibus, fasciculatis, longissimis; floribus solitariis; squamis calycis lanceolatis, albis.

Everlasting-flower with the stem-leaves linear, roundish, bundled, very long; flowers solitary; scales of the cup lance-shaped and white.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. An Hermaphrodite Floret, with its seed, magnified.

2. A Female Floret, with its seed, magnified.