SYNGENESIA— P0I.VGAM1A-.^:QU. Diotls. 40J 



Germ, oblong, slender, between the spurs. Style thread- 

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

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

 oblong, compressed, taperhig at the base, bordered at 

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

 rolla. *Down none. Recept. convex, nearly globular, 

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

 neaily as tall as the flowers. 

 Only one species, a densely cottony, perennial, corymbose 

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

 co id j^oic'^;-.*;. It is generally taken tor the original an- 

 cient GnapJialiiim 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 ^or^/, which form a sort of wings to the 

 seed, Grortner, Desfontaines, and other able botanists, 

 have confirmed this, and 1 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. 

 Uiotis, 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 

 Se(?{toli?ia. 



1. T). inaritima. Sea Cotton-weed. 



D. maritima. Hook. Lond. t. 1 37. 



D. ciuulidissima. Dcsfont. Ailunt. v.2.26\ . DeCand. Fr.vA. 20\. 



Santolina maritima. Linu. Ms. in Sp. PI. 1 1H2. IVilld.v. 3. 1 799. 



Fl. Jh. 8 GO. Engl. Dot. v.2.t.\4\. Comp. cd. 4. 135. Huds.SoG. 



Dic/iS. II. Sice, f (ISC. G. 1 1. Pultcn. Dorset. 80. 

 Athaniisia maritima. Linn.Sj). PI. 1 182. 

 Filac^o maritima. IJnn. Sp. PI. ed. 1 . 927- Mill. Ic 90. /. 135. 

 Gna))luilium. Matlh. I'ulgr. v. 2. 213. f. Onner. l.pit. 60d.f. Da- 



Lecli.UislAWb.f. 

 G. maritimum. Bank. Pin. 2i\'S. liaii Si/u.lSO. Buuh. IIisl.v.3. 



^ 1.157./ 

 G. marinum. Ger. Em. 6 K). f. Lob. Ic. 480./ 

 G. msirinum tomentosum. Didnh. Hist. 1387. /". 

 G. legitimum. Gtrrtn. v. 2. 391. /. 1C5. Clus. Ilist. v. 1.329./ 

 Chrysanthemum percnne gnaphaloides maritimum. .Moris, v. 3.21. 



sect. f). /.I./ 17. 

 Polium gnaphaloides. Alpin. Eiot. 147. '• 140. 

 Sea Cofton-weed. Pefir. H. Hrit. t. 20. f. 8. 



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