Jurinea
(derivation not explained). ORD. Compositae. A genus containing about forty species of hardy herbaceous perennials, natives of South Europe, Western and Central Asia, and distinguished from allied genera in the four-sided, somewhat top-shaped achenes being crowned with a pappus of unequal rough hairs. None of the species introduced are of much horticultural value, although occasionally seen in gardens. They thrive in any ordinary garden soil. Increased by seeds, or by divisions of the roots, in spring. J. depressa (depressed). fl.-heads purple. June. l. stalked, lyrate, pale green above, canescent beneath; the terminal segment large, rounded; the lateral ones small, ovate or triangular, entire. h. 6in. Caucasus, 1837. J. spectabilis (showy). fl.-heads purple. June. l. pinnatifid; lobes oblong, obtuse, angulate, white-tomentose underneath, h. 1ft. Caucasus, 1837.