ON INULA SALICINA AS AN IRISH PLANT. 
By D. Moore, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
(Pirate XLIII.) 
At page 333 of Vol. III. of this Journal, there is a notice of the 
discovery of Inula salicina in Ireland, and the Plate now given is taken 
from specimens collected at Lough Derg, in August, 1865. 
The following may be considered as the specific character and 
synonymy :— 
I. salicina, Linn. Sp. 1238 ; Vill. Dauph. iii. p. 247; De Cand. Fl. 
Fr. iv. p. 154. 
Aster salicinus, Scop. Carn. ii. p. 172; Ic. Fl. Dan. t. 786; Rehb. 
Exsic. 2458. 
I. cordata, Boiss. Diagn. iv. p. 3. Whprs. Rep. vi. p. 141, fide 
Sehultz-Bip. 
Stem from 6 to 14 inches high, firm, angularly striated, simple or 
branched near the summit, more or less clothed with hairs in the Irish 
plant (smooth on foreign specimens); leaves, cordate-lanceolate, semi- 
amplexicaul at the base, midrib and under-surface hairy in the Irish 
plant (glabrous on foreign specimens) bluntly dentate on the margins, 
and slightly recurved at or near the apex ; flowers terminal, solitary or 
in corymbs, bright yellow; scales of the involucre ovate-lanceolate, 
roughly ciliated at the margins, with reflexed apices ; achænia smooth. 
Fl. July. 
Has. On the county Galway shore of Lough Derg, among rough 
herbage and stones, in considerable abundance, about three-quarters of 
a mile south-west of Portumna. 
The foregoing description shows that our plant differs in some re- - 
spects from the normal form of the species, especially in being more 
pubescent on the stems and leaves, and also in the latter being more 
dentate on their margins. These characters, however, appear to vary 
according to circumstances, as may be gathered from the descriptions 
of the several authors who have described the plant. 
n comparing the examples brought from Portumna with plants 
der cultivation at Glasnevin, the differences were such as to cause some 
doubt whether our plant is not equally near to J. semiamplexicaulis, 
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