CLASS XIX. ORDER I.] CHRYSOCOMA—FILAGO. 1061 
GENUS XXV. CHRYSOCO'’MA.—Linn. Goldylocks. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tm. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Jnvolucrum imbricated hemispherical, or ovate, the 
scales linear. /lorets all perfect and tubular. Receptacle ex- 
eavated, naked. Pappus hairy, rough, or ciliated —Name from 
xevcos, gold ; and xoun, hair ; in allusion to the tuft of yellow 
flowers, with which the stem with its many narrow hair-like 
leaves are terminated. 
1. C. Linosyris, Linn. (Fig. 1252.) Flaa-leaved Goldylocks. Her- 
baceous leaves linear, smooth ; involucrum scalvs loosely spreading. 
English Botany, t. 2505.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 402.—Lindley, 
Synopsis, p. 142.—Lynosyris vulgaris—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 
4, yol. i. p. 300. 
foot fibrous, creeping. Stem erect, herbaceous, smooth, about a 
foot high, leafy, round, simple, slender. Leaves scattered, numerous, 
linear, acute, smooth, spreading from one to two inches long, some- 
what fleshy. lowers bright yellow, not very numerous, terminating 
the stem in a close tuft, or branched in a sub-corymbose manner. 
Florets tubular, deeply cut into five linear acute segments. Invo- 
lucresmooth, or slightly downy, lanceolate, spreading. ’ruit obovate, 
compressed, rough, with short hairs. Pappus dirty white, rough. 
Habitat.—Rocky cliffs near the sea; rare. Berryhead, Devon ; 
Whorle-hill, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset ; Ormeshead, and between 
Brighton and Shoreham. 
Perennial ; flowering in August and September. 
This, though a rare plant with us, is not uncommon on the Con- 
tinent, and especially in Italy, growing there many miles from 
the sea. We have seen it in great abundance on the hill side near 
Volterra and the neighbourhood. 
GENUS XXXVI. FILA’GO.—Liyn. Filago. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tz. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Involucrum imbricated, scales equal, acuminated, the 
margin membranous, coloured, longer than the florets. lorets 
slender, tubular, those of the disk perfect on the circumference 
with pistils only. Receptacle conical, toothed, tuberculated, or 
paleaceous. Pappus hairy, often wanting—Name filum, thread ; 
so called from the plants being covered over with slender thread- 
like hairs. 
1. F. Gal'lica, Linn. (Fig. 1253.) Narrow-leaved Filago. White, 
with woolly pubescence; stem erect, dichotomous ; leaves linear, 
