404 SVNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-.EQU. Diotis, 



Germ. oblon<T, sleutler, between the spurs. Sti/le thread- 

 shaped, the length of the corolla. Stigmas 2, spreading, 

 obtuse. Seed-vessel none but the unchanged calyx. Seed 

 oblong, compressed, tapering at the base, bordered at 

 each side with the compressed, obtuse spurs of the co- 

 rolla. Doxim none. Recept. convex, nearly globular, 

 small, beset with oblong, concave, downy-tipped scales, 

 nearly as tall as the flowers. 

 Only one species, a densely cottony, perennial, corymbose 

 herb, with simple crenate leaves, and tufted, yellow, dis- 

 co\(\ Jloxtjers. It is generally taken for the original an- 

 cient Gnaphalmm of Dioscorides, being frequent on all 

 the shores of the Archipelago; and Tournefort, who con- 

 firms this opinion in his Voyage v. 1. 10, detected, with 

 great sagacity, an essential generic character in the 2 

 spurs of each_/orf/, which form a sort of wings to the 

 seed. Geertner, Desfontaines, and other able botanists, 

 have confirmed this, and I can no longer refuse to ad- 

 mit the genus, though its original name is transferred to 

 another well-known and very ample one, from which it 

 could not, without great inconvenience, be removed. 

 Diotis, invented by Desfontaines, well expresses the es- 

 sential character, of a pair of ears to the seed.^ Still I 

 cannot but wish that the habit were more distinct from 

 Santolina. Willdenow has a genus called Diotis, Sp. 

 PI. v. 4. 368, but of later date than this of Desfon- 

 taines. 



1. D. marithna. Sea Cotton-weed. 



D. maiitima. Hook. Land. i. 137. 



D. candidissima. Desfonl. Allant. v. 2. 26 1 . DeCand. Fr. v. 4. 20 1 . 



Santolina maritima. Linn. Ms. in Sp. PL 1 1 82. M'illd. v. 3. 1 799. 

 Fl.Br.860. Engl. Bot.v.2. t.]4]. Comp. ed. 4.135. Huds.3b6. 

 Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 6. 1 1 . Piillen. Dorset. 80. 



Athanasia maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 182. 



Filajro maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 . 927. Mill. Ic. 90. t. 1 35. 



Gnaphalium. Matih. falgr. v. 2. 2\3./. Camer.Epit. QQb.f. Da- 

 lech. Hist. 111.3./. 



G. maritimum. Bmih. Pin. 263. Raii Syn. 180. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 

 p, 1. 157./ 



G. marinum. Ger. Em. 640./. Lob. Ic. 480,/ 



G. marinum tomentosum. Dalech.Hist. 1387./ 



G. legitimum. Gcvrtn. v. 2. 39 1. 1. 165. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 329./ 



Chrysanthemum perenne gnaphaloides maritimum. Moris, u.3. 21 . 

 sect.6.t.4.f.47. 



Folium gnaphaloides. Jlpin. Exot. 147. t. 146. 



