40^2 SYNGENESIA— POLYGAMIA-^QU. Diotis, 



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

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

 y qWow Jlo^ers without rays. Most of the species are na- 

 tives of southern Africa. 



1. Ch. Linos y rib'. Flax-leaved Goldylocks. . 



Herbaceous. Leaves linear, smooth. Calyx-scales loosely 

 spreading. 



Ch. Linosvris. Linn. Sp. PL 1 1 78. Fl. Suec. 283. mild. i;. 3. 1 79 1 . 



Comp. ecL 4. 135. Engl, Bot. v. 35. /. 2505. Prodr. Fl. Grcec. 



»j.2. 165. 

 Ch. n. 144. Hall. Hist. V. I. 63. 



Chrysocome Dioscoridis et Plinii. Column. Ecphr. v.l.Sl.t. 82. 

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

 Linarise tertium genus. Trag. Hist. 358./. 

 Linaria aurea Tragi. Ger. Em. 5rA.f. 

 Virga anrea, linaviae folio^ floribus congestis et umbellatim dispo- 



sitis. Moris. V. 3. 125. sec^. 7. i. 13./. 29. 



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



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

 Rev. Charles Holbech. uyr77*^^f'f'fi7^7c 77 /^.-A^, ^^f^A-* ^l .^Qrrrjf^.r^ 



Perennial. August, September. 



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

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

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

 nearly U inch long, scarcely stalked, a little fleshy. F/. 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 ^26!. Gcertn. t. 165. 

 Santolina. Fl. Br.mO. Comp. ed.A.\27 . 



Nat. Ord. see n. 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 

 spiers^ 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. 



