84 ON INULA SALICINA AS AN IRISH PLANT. 
Reuter, as it is to the typical form of J. salicina. Authenticated speci- 
mens of the former show that such is not the case. It isa stronger- 
growing plant than the latter, with more amplexicaul leaves, which are 
more crowded on the stem, and densely covered with short hairs. 
I. salicina is known to inhabit France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, 
Scandinavia, and Denmark; it might consequently be expected to 
appear somewhere in the British Isles, as is now proved to be the case, 
though the present is the only instance hitherto recorded. 
I have great pleasure in supplementing these remarks by some ob- 
servations on the genus Inula in general, and J. salicina in particular, 
which Dr. C. H. Schultz Bipontinus has addressed to the Editor, and 
which, coming from such a source, are important. 
“The extensive genus Inula forms three subgenera, which may be 
characterized as follows :— 
“I. INuLAsTER, Schl. Bip.—Flores omnes tubulosi, 5-dentati, her- 
maphroditi. 
“H. Cappa, De Cand. Prod. v. p. 469.— Flores radii 9 , stylo bre- 
viores parvæ, disci tubulosi, 5-dentati Ss 
* II. Eurnuta, Schl. Bip.—Flores radii 9 lingulati, ligulis disco 
longioribus conspicuis, disci € tubulosi, 5-dentati. 
A, Acheenia hirta, 
B. Acheenia glabra. 
. a. Capitulis oo mediocribus in corymbum dispositis. ' 
a. Folia decurrentia. (Z. thyrsoides, De Cand.; I. bi- 
frons, Linn. 
B. Folia sessilia, (7. Germanica, L. ete. 
- Capitulis paucis majoribus rarius in corymbum dispositis. 
a. Folia basi angustata, infra tomentosa, capitula medio- 
eria, corymbosa, (Z. Vaillantii, Vill.*) 
B. Folia eum caule 1-oligocephalo hirsuto. (Z. kirta, Linn.) 
y. Folia cum caule glabrescentia. 
* Folia oblongo-lanceolata, valde reticulata. 
T Sessilia, precipue suprema apiculata. (J. squar- 
rosa, Linn.) 
tt Auriculata-amplexicaulia Q. salicina). 
“ Inula salicina has a wide geographical range, being met with in the 
b 
ally of I. Vaillantii, Vill, is I. Japonica, Thunb., which I 
i ! n. 281, and Goring! n. 240), 
