SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-SUPERF. Inula. 413 



Small Flea-bane. Petiv. H. Brit t. 16./. 3. 



In moist sandy heathy spots, especially where water has stagnated 



during winter. 

 Annual. September. 



Root tapering, branched. Stem about a span high, upright, 

 spreading, sometimes decumbent, a little zigzag, branched, co- 

 rymbose, leafy, roundish, hollow, finely hairy, often purplish. 

 Leaves scattered, elliptic-oblong, recurved, acute, nearly or 

 quite entire, wavy, hairy on both sides ; contracted at the base, 

 slightly embracing the stem. Fl. solitary at the end of each 

 branch, soon overtopped by lateral ones, much smaller than the 

 last, being scarcely half an inch in diameter, of a dull pale yel- 

 low, with very short recurved rays, sometimes entirely wanting. 

 Calyx-scalesYmear, acute, hairy, all nearly of equal length. Seeds 

 of all the florets quadrangular, silky, crowned with 5 small 

 teeth, besides the same number, or a few more, of rough spread- 

 ing bristles, shorter than the calyx. The anthers are spurred at 

 the base, as in the rest of the genus. Recept. tuberculated, 

 besprinkled with a very few short hairs. 

 Here is a fine opportunity for the lovers of artificial genera to es- 

 tablish one, as unnatural as possible, by a technical character of 

 no importance whatever. Nothing can be more truly an Inula 

 than this plant, nor is there any doubt of its being the Linnsean 

 /. pulicaria, though a suspicion to the contrary was communi- 

 cated, by an able friend, to Dr. Withering. 



4. I. crithmoides. Samphire-leaved Flea-bane. 

 Leaves linear, fleshy, partly three -pointed. Calyx smooth. 

 I. crithmoides. Linn. Sp. PL 1 240. Fl. Br. 893. Engl. Bot. v. 1 . 



t. 68. Huds. 369. Hull. ed. 2.v.\. 244. 

 I. crithmifolia. Linn. Sijst. Veg. ed. 14. 7^7. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 



2101. With. 732. 

 Aster maritimus flavus, Crithmum chrysanthemum dictus. Raii 



Syn.\74. 

 A. littoreus luteus, folio angusto spisso, ad extremitatem trifido. 



Moris, r. 3. 11 9. sect. 7.t.2\ ./. 1 6. 

 Crithmum chrysanthemum. Dod. Pempt.706.f. Ger. Em. 533. f. 

 C. tertium. Matih. Valgr. v. 1. 446./; not good. Camer. Epit. 



274./ 

 Chrysanthemum littoreum. Lob. Ic. 395./ 

 Golden Samphire. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 17. f. 9. 

 On the sea coast in a muddy soil, chiefly in the south. 

 In a marsh near Hurst castle, over against the isle of Wight, 



plentifully ; on rocks at Llandwyn, Anglesea ; and on the bank 



of the river near Maldon, Essex. Ray. In Shepey island. She- 



rard. Portland island. Rev. Mr. Baker. On the Cornish coast, 



but sparingly. F. Borone. 



