COMPOSITjE. 101 



SPECIES TV— INULA CRITHMOIDES. Linn, 



Plate DCCLXIX. 



E-^ch Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXXXII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 100;j. 



Stem corymboscly branclicd at the apex, simple or panicu- 

 lately branched in tlie upper half, glabrous. Leaves strapshaped 

 or lincar-strapshnped, entire, those on the main stem with a small 

 tooth on each side near the apex ; those of the branches and axil- 

 lary fascicles generally withoiit these teeth ; all fleshy and glabrous. 

 Anthodes rather few, in simple corymbs at the extremity of the 

 stem and branches. Peduncles thickened upwards, with linear- 

 strapshaped bracts passing insensibly into the phyllaries. Peri- 

 cline funnelshaped-campanulate ; phyllaries herbaceous, glabrous, 

 adpressed ; inner ones scarious at the margins. Florets of the 

 ray numerous, their ligule linear, much longer than the phyl- 

 laries and pappus, flat, toothed at the apex. Achenes cylindrical, 

 striated, pubescent. Pappus in a single row. 



In salt marshes, and on rocks, banks and margins of ditches 

 by the seaside. Piather rare, and confined to the South and West 

 coasts, from Essex round to Wigton and Kirkcudbright. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Hootstock woody, many-headed. Stems 6 inches to 3 feet high, 

 bare of leaves at the base by the time the flowers expand, densely 

 leafy in the upper portion, with fascicles of small leaves on the 

 axils of those leaves which have not axillary branches, dividing at 

 the top into a few branches terminating in solitary peduncles, or 

 more rarely with several branches dividing again at the apex; this, 

 however, rarely happens, unless the central stem has been injured ; 

 but I have specimens from Sheppey with about a dozen branches 

 terminated by corymbs or solitary flowers. Pericline ^ inch across 

 or more, broader than long. Elorets bright-yellow. Pappus longer 

 than the brownish achene, dirty-white. Plant yellowish-green, 

 glabrous, fleshy. 



Golden Samphire. 



French, Aunee Charnue. 



Sub-Genus III.— PULICARIA. Gartn. 



Achenes cylindrical, rounded at the summit, witli stria? all 

 round. Pappus double, the inner of elongated scarcely ciliated 



