100 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES III— INULA SALICINA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXVIII. Figs. 1, 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1228. 



Stem glabrous or sub-glabrous, simple or sparingly corymbosely 

 branched at the top. Lowest leaves oblanceolate, narrowed towards 

 the base ; upper leaves elliptical or lanceolate-elliptical, sessile, semi- 

 amplexicaul with rounded auricles ; all firm, with the veins pro- 

 minent beneath, acute, very faintly and remotely denticulate, 

 glabrous above, glabrous or with scattered hairs (especially on the 

 veins) beneath, ciliated with cartilaginous hairs or processes. An- 

 thodes solitary, large. Pericline globose-campanulate ; phyllaries 

 glabrous, with ciliated edges ; the outer ones broader, foliaceous, 

 with reflexed points ; the inner ones strapshaped, sub-scarious. 

 Plorets of the ray with elongated ligules, toothed at the apex, 

 much longer than the phyllaries and pappus. Achenes glabrous, 

 cylindrical, striated. Pappus in a single row. 



Along the wild rough shore of Lough Derg, co. Galway, from 

 Portumna onwards, growing at intervals for about two miles, 

 amongst tufts of Schoenus nigricans, Molinia cserulea, Galium 

 boreale, &c. (Dr. D. Moore, in Seemann's " Journal of Botany,'* 

 Nov. 1865, p. 334). 



Ireland. Perennial. Early Autumn. 



Stem erect, 12 to 18 inches high. Leaves numerous, 1^ to 

 2J^ inches long, firm, sparingly hairy on the veins beneath in the 

 Irish specimens. Anthodes bright-yellow, 1^ inch across, in conti- 

 nental specimens. Pericline ^ to f inch across. Pappus dirty- white. 



I have been favoured with specimens of this fine species from 

 its discoverer, Dr. D. Moore, who has done so much for the botany 

 of Ireland. The name of I. semiamplexicaulis. Renter, has been 

 suggested by some botanists ; but the Galway plant agrees much 

 better with I. salicina. I have seen specimens of the latter, from 

 Denmark, Sweden, and Belgium, which have the leaves and stem 

 quite as hairy as in the Irish plant, while in I. semiamplexicaulis 

 the hairs are much more numerous, with bulbous bases, the leaves 

 softer and more conspicuously serrate, the stem taller, and the 

 anthodes more numerous. 



The Irish specimens with anthodes are in fruit, but there is no 

 appearance of ray-florets : so that either these have all fallen off, 

 or the heads have been discoid. 



Willow-leaved Inula, 



