natural Family of Plants called Composite. 109 



two plants are the only published species of tliis genus, for which 

 the name oi Galea should be retained, and which may be distin- 

 guished by the following characters : 



Galea. 

 Galeae species Linnei. 



Jnvoliicrum* imbricatum. Reccptaculum paleaceum. Flosculi 

 tubulosi, uniformes, herniaphroditi. AnthercB basi muticae. 

 Stigmata acuta. Pwjopj/s paleaceus : radiis uninerviis, pinna- 

 tifido-striatis. 



Frutices (Anicricee a?quinoctialis,) ptibescentes, scabri. Folia op- 

 posita, iiidivisa. Capitula-f- corymbosay v. terminalia, v. axillaria. 

 Involucri subovatifoliola nervosa, obttisa. Paleae receptaculi convexi 

 distinctcE,Jigura et text ura fere involucri. Gorollae luteo-purpurea 

 (Swartz), glabra, laciniis dinerviis. Achenium subcylindraceum 

 V. obsolete aiigulatum, glabrum v. pubesccns, callo baseos subobliquo. 

 Pappus jjersistens albas, nitens ; radiis simplici serie subulatis, 

 indivisis, superne denticulatis. 



Obs. In Sir Joseph Banks's Herbarium there are two plants 

 very nearly related to Galea, differing from it merely in having a 

 radius of ligular female florets. If this difference be considered 

 sufficient to constitute a genus, it may be named Gakacte. The 

 first of these plants (C. urticifolia), with nearly ovate acute 

 crenated leaves, found by Houston near Vera Gruz, is Solidago 

 urticafolia of Miller, by whom it appears to have been culti- 

 vated. The second, with deeply lobed or pinnatifid leaves 

 {G. pinnatijida), was lately sent from Brazil by Mr. Sellow. 



The second Linnean species, Gaka oppositifolia, has very little 

 affinity to the frrst. In attending merely to the technical cha- 

 racter of Santolina, it might be referred to that genus ; but it dif- 



* Calyx communis Lirmei. t Corolla communis Linn. 



