Werneria
(named in honour of A. G. Werner, 1750-1817, Professor of Mineralogy at Friburg). ORD. Compositae. A genus embracing about seventeen species of dwarf, tufted, greenhouse, perennial herbs, natives of the Andes of South America. Flower-heads large or mediocre, heterogamous; involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical, with one series of bracts; receptacle flat or convex, naked; ray florets pink, yellow, or white, in one series, ligulate; disk yellow; achenes oblong or turbinate. Leaves radical or clustered on the stem, entire or rarely toothed or pinnatisect. Only one species is known to gardeners. It thrives in light soil, and may be increased by division of the roots.
W. frigida (frigid). fl.-heads yellow, solitary, shortly pedunculate; involucre about thirteen-cleft, coloured. February. l. stellate, imbricated, linear, obtuse. h. 9in. Quito, 1828.