SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-iEQU. Diotis. 403 



Shrubby or herbaceous, with copious, simple, generally nar- 

 row, leaves; and terminal, erect, solitary or corymbose, 

 yeWow Jlowers without rays. Most of the species are na- 

 tives of southern Africa. 



1. Ch. Linosyris. Flax-leaved Goldylocks. 



Herbaceous. Leaves linear, smooth. Calyx-scales loosely 

 spreading. 



Ch. Linosyris. Linn. Sp. PL 1 1 78. FL Suec. 283, fVilld. u. 3. 1 79 1 . 

 Coinp. ed. 4. 135, Engl. Bot. v. S."). t. 2505. Prodr. FL Grcec. 

 V.2. 165. 



Ch. n. 144, HalLHist.v.].62. 



Chrysocome Dioscoridis et Plinii. Column. Ecphr. v. 1. 81, t.S2, 



Osyris Austriaca. Clus. Pann. 311./. Hist. v. 1. 325,/, 



LinariBe tertium genus. Trag. Hist. 358./. 



Linaria aurea Tragi. Ger. Em. 554./. 



Virga aurea, linariae folio, floribus congestis et umbellatim dispo- 

 sitis. Moris, v. 3. 125. sect. 7. t. 13./. 29. 



On rocky cliflFs, on the southern sea coast, rare. 



Amongst coarse grasses, on the rocky cliff of Berryhead, Devon. 

 Rev. Charles Holbech. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root creeping, with long stout fibres. Herb smooth. Stems erect, 

 a foot high, leafy, slender, simple, rigid, unbranched. Leaves 

 numerous, scattered, spreading, linear, entire, acute at each end, 

 nearly 1 1 inch long, scarcely stalked, a little fleshy. FL bright 

 yellow, at the top of the stem, in a corymbose tuft, various in 

 number. Florets about 30. Seeds hairy, with long, copious, 

 rough down. 



391. DIOTIS. Cotton-weed. 



Desfont. Atlant. v. 2. 260. DeCand. Fr. v. 4. 201. 



Gnaphalium. Tourn. i. 261. Gcertn. t. 165. 



Santolina. FL Br. 860. Comp. ed. 4. 127. 



Nat. Ord. see ii. 390. 



Common Cal. hemispherical, imbricated; scales oblong, con- 

 vex, obtuse, unarmed. Cor. compound, uniform, of nu- 

 merous tubular, level-topped, perfect, regular Jlorets, 

 about the length of the calyx ; their limb in 5 broadish, 

 equal, spreading segments ; tube contracted at the sum- 

 mit ; elongated at the base on each side, below its inser- 

 tion, into 2 opposite, compressed, equal, nectariferous 

 spurs, which finally separate from the rest of the tube and 

 remain attached to the germen. Filam. capillary, very 

 short, Anth. in a cylindrical tube, equal to the corolla. 

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