112 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES II.— A STER LINOSYRIS. Bemh. in Steucl Norn, 



Plate DCCLXXVII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMX. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Letter C. 



Chrysocoma Linosyris, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2505. 



Linosyris vulgaris, Cass. D. C. Prod. Vol. V. p. 352. Bah. Man. Brifc. Bot. ed. v. 



p. 174. Hook & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 246. Beiith. Handbook Brit. Fl. 



p. 291. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 384. Fries, Sura. Veg. Scand. 



p. 4. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 94, 

 Galatella Linosyris, Reich, fil. 1. c, p. 8. 



Stems herbaceous, wiry, simple or nearly so, very leafy. Leaves 

 not fleshy, 1-nerved, linear, glabrous, entire, and rough at the 

 margins. Peduncles with bracts below the anthodes, passing gra- 

 dually into phyllaries. Anthodes in a terminal corymb. Phyl- 

 laries lax ; the outer ones strapshaped, acute, spreading at the 

 apex ; inner ones elliptical, sub-scarious. Elorets all tubular and 

 perfect. Achenes pubescent. Pappus about as long as the achene, 

 reddish-white. 



On limestone cliffs. Kare. Berry Head, Devon ; Worle Hill, 

 Somerset ; and Orme's Head, Carnarvonshire. Single specimens 

 have also been found in the Isle of Portland, and between Brighton 

 and Shoreham. 



England. Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem slender, 4 to 20 inches high. Leaves very narrow, atte- 

 nuated at each end, 1-nerved, punctate above. Outer phyllaries 

 very narrow, herbaceous ; inner ones elliptical, broadly scarious at 

 the margins, acute or abruptly acuminate, yellowish, sometimes 

 tinged with pink. Plorets longer than the phyllaries, bright-yellow. 

 Achenes brown with whitish hairs. Pappus dirty-white, often tinged 

 with red. Plant green, glabrous, with the upper part of the stem 

 and peduncles generally puberulent. 



According to Dr. C. H. Schultz, a form with radiant anthodes 

 is cultivated under the name of Galatella linifolia, Nees. (Archiv. de 

 Plore, p. 128). 



Goldy lochs. 



French, Chrysocome a Feuilles de Lin. German, Leinkraut. 



GENUS XXIV.—S O L I D A G O. lAnn. 



Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, few- or many-flowered. 

 Pericline campanulate or cylindrical ; phyllaries imbricated in 

 several rows, herbaceous. Clinanth flat, pitted, the pits bordered 



