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* GALATÉLLA punctáta. 
Dotted Galatella. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Nat. ord. AsTERaACEX. (ComPosiTE.) (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 197.) 
GALATELLA, Cassini. Capitulum radiatum ; radio uniseriali, ligulis 
fcemineis abortivis ; disci flosculis hermaphroditis fertilibus tubulosis ; stigmatibus 
apice spathulatis obtusis. Involucrum disco brevius; foliolis pluriserialibus 
imbricatis inappendiculatis ; interioribus membranaceis exterioribus sepé trinerviis. 
Receptaculum alveolatum, marginibus alveolorum paleaceo-laceris. Pappus 
simplex, pluriserialis, radiis filiformibus rigidis serrulato-scabris, Achenia densé 
hirsuta v. strigoso-setacea. Nees Genera et Sp. Asterearum, p. 158. (terminis 
mutatis.) 
G. punctata ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis trinervibus punc- 
tatis scabris, ramulorum linearibus, caule apice corymboso ramis elongatis 
paucifloris contractis, involucris brevibus turbinatis, radio longo. Nees l.c. 
Aster punctatus. W. & Kit. Pl. Hung. 2.113. t. 109. 
Galatella intermedia. Cass. in dict. des sc. nat. xviii. p. 58. 
Aster desertorum, Fisch. ined. 
A hardy herbaceous plant, native of salt marshes in 
Hungary, Podolia, and elsewhere in the east of Europe. It 
also occurs in Siberia. In this country it flowers in July 
and August, growing to the height of about two feet, and 
forming a thick compact bush. 
We greatly doubt whether it is really a distinct species 
from G. hyssopifolia and acris, or they from each other, so 
very difficult is it to distinguish them with absolute certainty 
when one has a long series of specimens under examination. 
From the former it may, however, be generally known by 
its compact inflorescence, and larger flower hea 5; which are 
