Tap: 6515. 
HELICHRYSUM rricivem. 
Native of Corsica. 
Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe INULOIDER. 
Genus Heticurysum, Gertn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p- 309.) 
Heticurysvum (Xerochlena) frigidum; perenne, herbaceum, pumilum, cespitosum, 
ramis decumbentibus molliter argenteo-sericeis, foliis laxe imbricatis lineari- 
oblongis obtusis integerrimis, capitulis terminalibus solitariis sessilibus basi 
tomentosis, involucri bracteis lineari-oblongis obtusis, interioribus albis elongatis 
stellatim patentibus, achzniis sericeis, pappi setis paucis 1-seriatis scaberulis. 
H. frigidum, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1908, and DC. Fl. Frane. vol. iv. p. 131; 
Prodr. vol. vi. p. 177; Gren. et Godr, Fl. Franc, vol. ii. p. 186. 
Gnaphalium bellidiflorum, Viv. Fragm. p. 16, t. 19. 
Xeranthemum frigidum, Lab. Pl. Syr. Dec. vol. ii. p. 9, t. 4. 
A very remarkable and scarce little alpine plant, found 
hitherto nowhere but in the mountains of Corsica, at ele- 
vations reaching to 6000 feet. It was long supposed to - 
be also a native of Syria, it being described and figured by 
the Syrian traveller Labillardiere (under the name of 
Xeranthemum frigidum) as being found by him on Mount 
Lebanon as well as in Corsica, and we have in the Kew 
Herbarium a specimen of it from Labillardiere’s own 
herbarium, communicated by the late Mr. Webb, who 
obtamed the herbarium by purchase, and left it by will to 
Florence, but it is not stated whether it is from. Corsica or 
Lebanon; as however it is identical with specimens from the 
first-named country, it may be assumed to be a copatriot. 
Boissier, in his Flora Orientalis (vol. iii. p. 239), states 
under H. Billardieri (a Lebanon species and very different 
from H. frigidwm) that H. frigidum is erroneously ascribed 
to the Lebanon, and this is the general and, no doubt, correct 
opinion. 
I am indebted to Messrs. Backhouse for the opportunity 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1880. ~° 
