Ixodia
(from ixodes, viscid; in reference to the viscid secretions on the plant). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus. The species is a glabrous greenhouse evergreen shrub, from Australia. It thrives in a compost of sandy peat and a little fibry loam. Propagated in May, by cuttings of the young shoots, getting hard at their base, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in a close frame or pit.
I. achilleoides (Achillea-like). fl.-heads in a dense terminal corymb, very much resembling those of Achillea, the white, petal-like, radiating laminae of the inner involucral bracts being similar to the ray-florets of that genus; involucre glutinous, with green centres, and often slightly woolly. June. l. linear-lanceolate or slightly spathulate, usually acute, mostly above 1in. long, more or less decurrent on the stem. h. 1 1/2ft. 1803. (B. M. 1534.)