Chaptalia
(named after M. Chaptal, a celebrated French chemist, 1756-1831). ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising about eighteen species, confined to the New World; perhaps the only one in cultivation being that mentioned below. It is an ornamental hardy herbaceous perennial, easily grown in a light sandy soil. Propagated by divisions of the roots, in early spring.
C. tomentosa (tomentose).* fl.-heads white; pappus capillary; receptacle naked; ray-florets in a double row, deformed; scape naked, one-headed; head nodding. May. l. ovate-oblong, entire, silvery beneath. h. 6in. North America, 1806. (B. M. 2257.)